FREEING EDUCATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS – BEYOND TUITION FEES #5
It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...
THE FUTURE OF STUDENTS’ UNIONS – BEYOND TUITION FEES #4
It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...
THOUGHTS FROM THE FRONTLINE OF MARKETISATION – BEYOND TUITION FEES #3
It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...
A TRULY RADICAL NUS – BEYOND TUITION FEES #2
It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...
The UCU strike: a tale of student-staff solidarity
The UCU strike has been one of the biggest mobilisations the education sector has seen in years – the fourteen days of strike action that have been recently...
The Office for Students – Let’s not be caught napping
The Office for Students, the new regulator for Higher Education Institutions in England, was launched on New Year’s day this year. In the first days since it was...
The TEF: why it isn’t good enough
In December, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) released a document aimed at students to explain what the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) is. In it we...
Prison reform and the arts: to re, or not to re?
I recently watched a fascinating video on Facebook. In it we glimpse the processes of the Marin Shakespeare Company in California who work with inmates (henceforth ‘students’) in prisons...
Young Greens join the United for Education Demo
Thousands of students and academics will be taking to the streets of London on Saturday to make their voice heard about the damaging reforms being made to higher education,...
10,000 March for Free Education in Dublin
This week, between eight and twelve thousand students, teachers and union members marched through Dublin in opposition to proposed plans to raise university tuition fees and introduce a student...