Save EMA » Student Protests

We’ve won a battle in the war to Save EMA

Monday, March 28, 2011

Today Save EMA has won our A Deals A Deal campaign and forced the Government to pay EMA to those who are currently recieving £30 a week in EMA next year. You can see James Mills from Save EMA respond straight after the decision below to the BBC. This is a BIG victory for our [...]

Save EMA Day

Monday, December 6, 2010

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The Save EMA campaign is bringing together students, parents, staff and trade unions, to organise Save EMA Day on 13 December. As colleges and sixth-forms around the country hold lunchtime protests against government plans to axe financial support that would leave many students unable to continue their studies. Protestors will be contacting their local MP [...]

Why the violence was wrong, but the campaign must go on…

Friday, November 12, 2010

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The reasons why the violence was wrong, if the blood stained woman police officer and that fire extinguisher didn’t quite convince you, is that it meant the Government were able to completely duck the issue that axing EMA is wrong. I believe that the cuts to education like EMA are evil and wrong; which is [...]