Luke Shore

Luke Shore
Board Member of the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions
In office
2013–2015
Director of StudentVoice
In office
2012–2013
Personal details
Born 14 April 1997
Nottingham, England
Nationality British, French
Residence London

Luke Thomas Shore (born 14 April 1997) is a Franco-British student activist. Credited with re-establishing the school student movement in the United Kingdom, he is now a Board member of the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions.

Career

Shore was Director of the national school student body StudentVoice[1] from 2012-2013. He founded the School Student Working Group to lobby the Department for Education to democratise British schools[2] and ran a prominent national campaign calling for the establishment of a British school student union.[3][4][5] In 2013, he was elected as a Board member of the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions,[6][7][8][9] the platform for cooperation between the national school student unions active in general secondary and secondary vocational education in Europe.

Activism

In 2011, Shore was involved in the international coordination of the 15-M Movement and Occupy movement and acted as a central coordinator of the 15 October 2011 global protests against economic inequality.[10] In 2014, Shore headed up the coordination team of the 17th November 2014 Global Protests, taking the demonstrators' demands for free education to the European Union and the United Nations.[11][12][13] As part of this campaign, he led student calls for national governments and United Nations institutions to prioritise free, equal access to education and safe learning environments in the United Nations' Post-2015 Development Agenda.[14]

References

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  3. ↑ "'We need a national association of school students'". The Daily Telegraph. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "'Shore thing: union for school students could be created'". Times Educational Supplement. 19 July 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "'Pupils need their own union'". Children and Young People Now. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
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  7. ↑ "'Ivan Marciuš sudjelovao na sjednici Nacionalog vijeća učenika'". www.emedjimurje.hr. 27 October 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "'OBESSU LETNJA SKOLA 2013'". http://www.srednjoskolci.org.rs''.
  9. ↑ "'OBESSU Takes a Step Forwards'". http://www.obessu.org''.
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  11. ↑ http://www.obessu.org/wp-content/uploads/Global-call-for-action-PDF1.pdf
  12. ↑ http://www.obessu.org/press-release-european-school-students-mark-international-students-day-2
  13. ↑ https://groups.google.com/a/childrenyouth.org/forum/#!topic/majorgroup/RMgIRb4YTHk
  14. ↑ http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/news_details/3328