Manchester’s Student Revolt
Students at University of Manchester have been treated with contempt by management. Like those across the country, we were lured back to campus on the promise of normality – a promise that the lecturers’ union, the UCU, as well as SAGE warned was inconceivable.
We have been used as scapegoats for government failings, and forced to pay rents that 74% of us cannot meet – since students usually work to make ends meet. All this while Nancy Rothwell, our Vice-Chancellor who chairs the Russell Group, championed the use of chartered flights to coax international students into an environment that she must know is unsafe.