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Reclaim Your Education is a newly forming national movement in Australia that advocates for the appropriate funding and good academic management of Tertiary Education.

The movement is formative but it is national. Our aim is to involve, through predominantly on-line co-ordination, increasing numbers of academic and general staff, students and student organisations and student associations, prospective students and the wider communities and societal institutions and all levels of government to ensure higher education reforms occur, new unfolding and policies of inclusions guaranteed.

We believe that Universities have focused on mandating themselves as providers to the changing economies and are losing their value as bastions of identity forming influences and constructs towards a socially inclusive society.

OUR AIMS INCLUDE:

* To advocate for the Humanities as part of every Teaching and Learning University. To ensure inter-disciplinarity and multi-disciplinarity at Universities through the Humanities.

* To advocate for the peak body (the Board of Directors) of each University to be predominately comprised of internal Councillors/Senators and thus ensure Directors are immersed in their University's academic detail and planning. To ensure only a minority of external Councillors/Senators as such to to enable sufficient commercial and legal acumen.

* To advocate for the inclusion of elected academic and general staff and elected student representatives to all the major committees, boards and mechanisms of a University. To ensure that a University is not merely the reflection of its minority Senior Executive/Leadership Management Unit.

* To advocate for all Academics and Staff to be appropriately paid to either State or Federal Awards as to ensure quality of education. To ensure that there are minimum universal awards and accords throughout the tertiary education sector.

We are further advocating debate in the following:

* To consider community based experiences in make a difference programs and internships as community based education towards ones education and hence identify graduate attributes for a more socially inclusive society.

* To consider compulsory substantive Indigenous Studies, of a historical and contemporary cross cultural nature, as part of all undergraduate programs: and this could be delivered through the Introductory Unit to undergraduate study. It must be delivered by only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. This has been recommended at Murdoch University for 2010, agreed to through the University's Academic Council, led by Gerry Georgatos.

* For the whole of the University Community, that is academics and general staff and students, to vote in the Chancellor of their University and the Pro/Deputy Chancellor of their University.

We cannot allow our Universities and Higher Education to devolve any further. The national consciousness depends on Universities examining the human condition and serving it rather than serving industry alone.

You can email comments or your expression of interest to get involved with RYE to comments@reclaimyoureducation or to gerry_georgatos@yahoo.com.au

Perth (Australia)

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Rallies and Gatherings occurred all over the world in a Global Week of Action for Reclaimyoureducation, from April 20 to April 29, 2009.

People around the world already successfully united for the "International Day of Action against the Commercialisation of Education" (05/11/2008) and the "Reclaim your Education - Global Week of Action" (20 - 29/04/2009).

With each internationally co-ordinated protest we get stronger!

We are very motivated now to unite for a Global Week of Action coming November, which will be even bigger than the previous day and week of action.

To read about all the rallies and gatherings worldwide please link to http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/content/actions-during-global-week-action-summary

To read about the coming GLOBAL WEEK OF ACTION, NOVEMBER 16-22, incorporating November 17, the International Student Activists Day (which remembers the students and citizens who had their lives taken in student protests at the Athens Polytechnic, and on and off university campuses in Greece, Nov. 17, 1973) please link to http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/content/global week-action-2009

"Students Without Borders" working with "ReclaimYourEducaton" coordinated rallies in the
city parks of Perth, the Esplanade and Hyde Park, on April 20, 24 and 25. The
students and citizens we attracted averaged about 50 to each peaceful and informative gathering. For
us, this was a good start, though quite poor and indicative of apathy
when contrasted with efforts everywhere else. We relied on the often proved fact that from little things big things grow. We spoke about education
as notionally identity forming and its commercialisation in terms of a
corporate world's hierarchical wants needing to be addressed or that we
shall continue to devolve into automatons. We hope that they all will
become members of SWB and RYE and get involved in the campaigns to
address the pervasive endemic problems."

As of April 2009, Students Without Borders (studentswithoutborders.com.au) has over 12,000 members and Reclaimyoureducation Australia has 140 members.

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