Last academic year (2016-17), one hundred students from the staunch left protest group, WFFE occupied the University of Warwick's Slate building for three weeks.
A recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request, reveals that the total "damage to the building/furniture" - including repairs and replacements - costed the University £934.42.
Reducing the University's income reduces the total amount of money going to students' education. Hence, WFFE (Warwick For Free Education) have been approached by the Eye for comment.
Perhaps, Warwick SU - under the current leadership of WFFE members - could lobby WFFE to pay the University back for damages?
Previously, it was known that the 'Slate Occupation' led to booking cancellations - damaging University income, and lead to students with part jobs at the Slate to lose their salaries.
The same FOI reveals that one booking was completed cancelled, whilst "a number of other bookings were moved to other locations on campus", however University "does not hold information regarding the loss of revenue".
WFFE stayed until their demands were meet. This included demanding 'the University to opt out of the Teaching Excellence Framework', agree to Warwick Anti-Casualisation's 6 Demands, and to scrap the protest injunction on campus. Details can be found, here.
After 3 weeks, a compromise between the protestors and the University was agreed, culminating with a public statement from the Vice Chancellor, Stuart Croft to students.
It seems that no student or organisation will ever be held accountable for the damages caused in the Occupation - just another year of WFFE student protests.
By The Warwick Eye
Sources:
The Boar https://theboar.org/2017/01/inside-the-occupation/
The Demands https://warwick4freeducation.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/statement-of-occupation/#respond
University VC's Statement https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/news/statement_from_stuart/
A recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request, reveals that the total "damage to the building/furniture" - including repairs and replacements - costed the University £934.42.
Reducing the University's income reduces the total amount of money going to students' education. Hence, WFFE (Warwick For Free Education) have been approached by the Eye for comment.
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| Will WFFE ever pay back the University for the damages that their protestors caused? |
Perhaps, Warwick SU - under the current leadership of WFFE members - could lobby WFFE to pay the University back for damages?
Previously, it was known that the 'Slate Occupation' led to booking cancellations - damaging University income, and lead to students with part jobs at the Slate to lose their salaries.
The same FOI reveals that one booking was completed cancelled, whilst "a number of other bookings were moved to other locations on campus", however University "does not hold information regarding the loss of revenue".
WFFE stayed until their demands were meet. This included demanding 'the University to opt out of the Teaching Excellence Framework', agree to Warwick Anti-Casualisation's 6 Demands, and to scrap the protest injunction on campus. Details can be found, here.
After 3 weeks, a compromise between the protestors and the University was agreed, culminating with a public statement from the Vice Chancellor, Stuart Croft to students.
It seems that no student or organisation will ever be held accountable for the damages caused in the Occupation - just another year of WFFE student protests.
By The Warwick Eye
Sources:
The Boar https://theboar.org/2017/01/inside-the-occupation/
The Demands https://warwick4freeducation.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/statement-of-occupation/#respond
University VC's Statement https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/news/statement_from_stuart/
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