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	Kat Fletcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kat Fletcher is the current president of the UK National Union of Students (2004-06), the first to be elected from a united left slate on politics clearly to the left of Labour Students, who have held the position for most of the past twenty years.
		NB: Kat Fletcher should not be confused with Cath Fletcher, a previous AWL Marxist and CFE member on the NUS "Block of Twelve".
		Fletcher was formerly the president of Sheffield College's students' union, where she joined the Campaign for Free Education (CFE) and the Alliance for Workers Liberty, a Trotskyist group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kat_Fletcher (711 words)

	The Pyrates Royale: Ship's Navigator, Kat Fairbanks
		Kat worshipped her father, who taught her everything he knew about navigation.
		Kat's mother despaired of ever teaching her daughter womanly arts such as needlepoint, but used the girl's love of singing to persuade her to learn some musical instruments.
		Kat will not say what happened after the sailors found her mother and brother, except that her mother is dead and her brother's whereabouts are unknown.
	www.pyrates.com /crew/katbio.html (774 words)

	ipedia.com: Kat Fletcher Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Kat Fletcher is the first president of the UK National Union of Students with politics clearly to the left of Labour Students, who have held the position for most of the past twenty years.
		Kat Fletcher was formerly the president of Sheffield College's students' union, where she joined the Campaign for Free Education and the Alliance for Workers Liberty, a Trotskyist group.
		Kat Fletcher should not be confused with Cath Fletcher, a previous CfE candidate for NUS president.
	www.ipedia.com /kat_fletcher.html (238 words)

	Katch Her If You Can
		Financial concerns has been the issue that has dominated Kat’s presidency so far, but she feels that things are on the up: “We’re not in a position where all of a sudden the plug’s gonna be pulled and NUS will be disappearing.
		Kat was conscious that such a big change would have to be voted in: “We said right from the beginning it would have to be a decision that was made by the membership and by no-one else.
		Kat is a firm believer in students’ ability to make a difference: “We’ve shown that when students are organised they can do amazing things, whether that’s being involved in internationalist politics, or mobilising to stop student unions being shut down, or whether that’s fighting against top-up fees.
	www.exzibit.net /viewarticle.php?articleID=234 (1151 words)

	Politics \| 'People are quite depressed about voting'
		Polly Curtis spends a day touring university campuses with Kat Fletcher, the president of the National Union of Students, as she campaigns to get students to vote tomorrow.
		Kat Fletcher, president of the National Union of Students (NUS) has a theory as to why top-up fees, which were a year ago touted to be an election-defining issue, have hardly been mentioned in over the past month.
		But what Ms Fletcher and her senior NUS colleagues were talking about, as they drifted down the River Cam shouting their pro-voting message up to the cloisters of the various colleges via a megaphone, was whether the Liberal Democrats would stick to that.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5185763-115819,00.html (997 words)

	NUS President, Fletcher, Wins Re-election
		Speaking shortly after the results were announced, Fletcher was keen to stress that her victory was not purely a personal achievement: “I am delighted to have been re-elected with a strong mandate from my members,” she said.
		And Fletcher’s desire for such reform at the NUS comes as a result of what she once described as “a confused organisationfacing disaffection and dissatisfaction from our members”.
		Fletcher is the 50th president of the NUS but only the 6th woman to take the job since its conception in 1922.
	www.exzibit.net /viewarticle.php?articleID=251 (486 words)

	Education Not For Sale
		Fletcher has committed NUS to supporting a Government campaign explaining and justifying the new student funding system, based on variable top-up fees, due to come into effect in 2006.
		Fletcher claims that this does not mean endorsing the Government's plans, and in strictly logical terms it does not.
		If Fletcher had spent a tenth of the effort she has expended in the last month "explaining" top-up fees on publicy promoting this policy, it would have received massive press attention.
	www.free-education.org.uk /kat1.shtml (839 words)

	The Rundown \| Blogs - NUS Watch
		Kat Fletcher has used her latest Guardian column to write about the recent report into anti-Semitism in the NUS.
		The NUS President, Kat Fletcher, has been discussing her decision to support the government's information campaign about variable tuition fees.
		Kat Fletcher writes in her Guardian column about the poor financial situation many graduates find themselves in.
	www.therundown.co.uk /newsblog/nuswatch (340 words)

	Socialist Students Fight NUS Cuts \| The Socialist 26 June 2004
		Unfortunately, Kat Fletcher, recently elected as a supposedly left-wing president of the NUS, (the Campaign for Free Education, CFE, candidate) actually moved the proposal herself and called for support for the cuts!
		The election of Kat Fletcher was seen as a victory for the left and an opportunity to begin to achieve this.
		Kat Fletcher built her profile as part of the 'block of twelve', but now she is in favour of reviewing its size.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2004/353/pp8.htm (554 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Students \| Kat Fletcher: Would like to meet Ruth Kelly
		She won by a majority of just two, breaking a Labour stranglehold on the union and becoming a symbol of the dissatisfaction of a student movement betrayed by its government.
		Fletcher says she received "generous" support for the reforms.
		Fletcher, who comes from a family of teachers in Sheffield, is a card-carrying member of the Labour party.
	education.guardian.co.uk /students/comment/story/0,12892,1402575,00.html (1363 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| eG weekly \| Kat Fletcher: Would like to meet Ruth Kelly
		Fletcher promised that there was more to fight for, that they would change the bill in the House of Lords.
		Though Fletcher was accused of being "loony left" when she was elected, under her NUS presidency, traditionally conservative Edinburgh University decided in December to reaffiliate after 25 years.
		There were plans a while back for Fletcher to stand in the general election in Norwich, against Clarke, in protest at fees.
	education.guardian.co.uk /egweekly/story/0,5500,1402412,00.html (1363 words)

	FEnews.co.uk - Up to the minute Further Education, work based learning, NVQ, College and Training Provider news
		Fletcher is a recent graduate of Leeds University with a degree in Social Policy, but her experience goes far beyond theory.
		Fletcher’s administration has also introduced the NUS education manifesto to make the aims and policy of the NUS transparent and accessible.
		Fletcher will need to draw on these experiences and accomplishments in order to tackle the obstacles the NUS faces in this, her second term.
	www.fenews.co.uk /newsview.asp?n=421 (380 words)

	educationet. The Grass Roots UK Education On-Line News Service
		Kat Fletcher had managed to gain 7 votes on Mandy Telford, but those Walker supporters who didn't transfer to Mertcan increased Telford's lead by 8 votes again.
		Although Dervish Mertcan's transfer was only mildly favouring Kat Fletcher over Mandy Telford, it reduced her lead from 28 votes to only 3.
		Many CFE members were blaming SWSS for Kat's defeat in the election, and if the two halves of the left resorted to boycotting each other votes, the rest of the elections could have got nasty.
	www.educationet.org /z0286.html (1534 words)

	Politics \| Kat Fletcher re-elected as NUS president
		Ms Fletcher got 536 votes, out of around 800 in total, beating off competition from the Conservative candidate, Michael Champion, Suzie Wylie, from the far left, and Dan Chilcott, who campaigned on an anti-fees ticket.
		Despite this diminished profile, Ms Fletcher is popular with student officers in unions and has spent most of her presidency on the road meeting members.
		This is not just a vote for an individual but a vote for a changing NUS that is delivering to its members and responding to their calls for reform in order to ensure a strong and proactive campaigning national union for the students of today and tomorrow."
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5164767-110172,00.html (314 words)

	\| ~ \| S i L e N c E - v 2 . 0 - \| ~ \|
		Dan kat sebelah-sebelah notis tuh ada pula orang yang conteng-conteng, macam membalas semula kata-kata si penulis notis.
		Agak rasa bosan, aku datang melepak kat ITD yang sejuk macam kat Antartika.
		Kalau tidak, aku tunggu je laa kat tepi jalan tu.
	littlesilence.blogdrive.com /archive/cm-01_cy-2005_m-01_d-06_y-2005_o-0.html (3918 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Kat Fletcher re-elected as NUS president
		Kat Fletcher was today re-elected president of the National Union of Students with an overwhelming majority.
		No incumbent president has ever been voted out, but Ms Fletcher's majority is believed to be one of the largest ever.
		In the year since she was elected, Ms Fletcher has held two emergency conferences to try to rectify the NUS's financial problems.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /studentpolitics/story/0,1556,1453548,00.html (314 words)

	BathStudent : News - 15th Nov - #11
		Students' leader Kat Fletcher may stand as an anti-tuition fees candidate against Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, at the next general election, it emerged this week.
		Ms Fletcher, president of the National Union of Students, said that no formal decision had been taken about general election tactics in the union's campaign against tuition fees.
		Kat Fletcher, the feisty president who was elected on a promise of direct action, plans to spend Christmas day behind the bar in her old local pulling pints.
	www.bathstudent.com /clubs_RenderPage.asp?clubid=7518&pageid=15372 (1024 words)

	NUS extraordinary conference \| The Socialist 20 November 2004
		NUS president Kat Fletcher, originally elected on a socialist ticket, campaigned for these cuts and embraced members of the NEC who were clearly relieved that she had moved their motion attacking the democratic structures.
		Reactions among the delegates were mixed - some were talking of their union disaffiliating from NUS, others gave Fletcher a rousing standing ovation.
		NUS president Kat Fletcher will be coming to debate the strategy to defeat tuition fees and the need to build an active campaign on the ground, linking up with workers and trade unions on our campuses.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2004/371/pp8.htm (882 words)

	Live! : News
		Kat Fletcher has described the NUS as having "immense, but unrealised potential".
		The Presidency of the National Union of Students took a sharp turn to the left yesterday with the election of Kat Fletcher, the current NUS national women’s officer.
		Ms Fletcher had previously come to the attention of some ICU hacks earlier this year when the Union was discussing whether to support a protest on the day of the 2nd reading of the Higher Education Bill.
	live.cgcu.net /news/?id=908 (1939 words)

	nusonline.co.uk
		Kat has overseen a number of achievements for the Union in her year as president.
		This includes the launch of a new code of standard for university accommodation and a scheme which protects students from rip-off landlords, success in seeing the age limit for student loans lifted and the launch of an NUS education manifesto.
		A former FE student, Kat has prioritised a campaign for students from this sector and seen child and welfare benefits extended to 19 year olds as a result of NUS lobbying.
	stage.nusonline.co.uk /news/pressreleases/270661.aspx (224 words)

	MPACUK :: Discussion Forum - NUS in racism row (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Kat Fletcher, the union's national president, said the allegations would be investigated.
		As Kat Fletcher, the President of NUS has publicly stated that NUS is an organisation based on principles of equality, diversity, and democracy, these principles FOSIS supports and hopes everyone will adhere towards.
		“We all know NUS under the leadership of Kat Fletcher and James Lloyd have an excellent track record in tackling racism and fascism, we must ensure that we support them to tackle racism and discrimination head on, whether it is anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or any phobia of belief, creed and way of life.
	forum.mpacuk.org /showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=909 (945 words)

	Campaign for Free Education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Several of the successful candidates, whether from the CfE or other groups, subsequently publicly fell out with their original supporters, weakening the organisation.
		In 2004, Kat Fletcher, standing for the CfE, was elected as the first non-Labour Students backed NUS President in twenty years.
		However, she left the group shortly afterwards, while the CfE gradually declined until its remaining activists took part in the founding of a new, wider Education Not for Sale network.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Campaign_for_Free_Education (338 words)

	The Socialist Student issue 2
		Kat Fletcher was, in 2004, elected as the first non-Labour Students NUS president for over 20 years, showing the anger that exists among students against New Labour spin and careerism.
		Some (including Kat Fletcher), though not being members of Labour Students, are members of the Labour Party.
		The NUS Education Manifesto, accredited to President Kat Fletcher and Vice-president Hannah Essex, points out that the union should not just be seen as fee fighters (some might say they are not even seen as fee fighters).
	www.socialiststudents.org.uk /studsoc/issue2/4.htm (2045 words)

	nistudents.org: Another fine mess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Kat Fletcher on why Tory plans for higher education funding are not the answer
		From being active in the anti-apartheid movement, to fighting the Conservative government over the 1994 Education Act and the threat to shut down student unions, students have a long history of being a strong political force.
		· Kat Fletcher is President of the National Union of Students.
	www.nistudents.org /sections/opinion/000612.php (825 words)

	Edinburgh Student Newspaper : News : EUSA vote to oppose rectorial candidate Boris Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Last Tuesday’s SRC meeting saw NUS President Kat Fletcher warn students against voting in Boris Jonhson as Rector of Edinburgh University.
		Ms Fletcher opened the meeting, welcoming Edinburgh back to the NUS before voicing her views on the rectorial elections.
		Ms Fletcher told Student: “It seems a well-timed, tactical move”, referring to his recent appointment as Shadow Minister for Higher Education, and implied that self-interest in his political image overshadowed a genuine concern for the university and its students.
	www.studentnewspaper.org /view_article.php?article_id=20060206173009 (662 words)

	Black information Link:
		STUDENT LEADERS led by New Labour babe Kat Fletcher have been branded 'Islamophobic' after they attempted to gag a respected Muslim scholar from speaking at a London conference
		Under-fire NUS President Kat Fletcher, who is known to be close to New Labour, backed the decision of the students' executive committee to pass a motion urging the European Social Forum (ESF) to "withdraw" their invitation.
		But NUS President Kat Fletcher, who chaired the meeting, refused to distance herself from the controversial motion and claimed she was surprised that some people were upset.
	www.blink.org.uk /pdescription.asp?key=4672&grp=7&cat=31 (685 words)

	Weekly Worker 572 - Thursday April 14 2005
		Of course, cutbacks have therefore been the name of the game, and this has given rightward-leaning elements within the executive plenty of opportunity to present cuts in democracy and accountability as the only viable course of action if the NUS is to survive.
		Having cut her ties with the AWL and the Campaign for Free Education, Fletcher now sadly appears to be aligned with a number of meandering independents and Labour Students within the NEC.
		This did not prevent her from being re-elected to the post by a 200-vote margin, however - possibly as a result of her attempt to present herself as the NUS saviour and a number of key factional endorsements: Labour Students did not stand a candidate for the presidency, for instance.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/572/nus.htm (1045 words)

	FOSIS > Student Affairs > Media > BBC News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Other issues to be considered at the conference include the welfare of Muslim students on campus, such as difficulties accommodating dietary needs, a lack of prayer rooms and problems observing religious holidays.
		Among the delegates at the conference will be National Union of Students president Kat Fletcher.
		Her presence marks a reconciliation between the NUS and Fosis, which had accused the national student body of insensitivity on Muslim issues.
	www.fosis.org.uk /sac/media/BBCNEWS290605.htm (418 words)

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