Uni students protest at funding cuts

HUNDREDS of uni students have rallied on campuses around the country against plans by the federal government to cut funding from the tertiary sector.

The protests organised by the National Union of Students (NUS) on Wednesday were the first in a series of actions against the Gillard Government's plan to rip more than $2 billion from higher eduction.

In Sydney, about 100 students gathered at UNSW's Kensington campus, while another 100 rallied nearby at UTS.

Further down the road, about 50 Sydney university students held a protest outside the office of federal Labor MP Tanya Plibersek.

NUS president Jade Tyrrell told the crowd at Kensington that all uni students would be affected by the proposed cuts.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has offered state and territory governments $2 for every extra $1 they invest in education, promising a $14.5 billion package over six years from 2014.

As a result the federal government would scrap more than $2 billion from university funding to help pay for the reforms.

David Gonski, the chancellor of UNSW and the architect of the new funding model for schools, has criticised the funding changes, as have the teacher's unions.

At RMIT in Melbourne, around 300 people rallied against the cuts.

"This is an issue that's not going to go away," National Tertiary Education Union Victoria president Jeannie Rea said.

"The attitude that higher education flies below the radar, that it's not like schools, is incorrect."

Brisbane was also the scene of education protests, with around 300 Queensland teachers and principals rallying outside Parliament House.

They gathered in a last-ditch bid to get the state government to sign up to Canberra's Gonski education reforms.

Singing and chanting, they held placards with slogans such as "Teachers aren't dogs, they don't fight over a bonus" and "Give a Gonski for our kids Mr Newman."

Protests are scheduled for Perth on Thursday.

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