Lecturers and university staff in first UK-wide joint strike over pay
This piece originally appeared in Nouse, the University of York's student newspaper. Thousands of lecturers and non-academic staff will go on strike over pay on Thursday 31st October, after members…
Climate change purged from the curriculum as capitalist realism arrives in the UK
There is no more profound duty than that of each generation to educate its children. It is through the dissemination of knowledge that human societies progress. Human's are incredible. We…
Michael Gove: Letting the Whole School Down
Tory Education Minister Michael Gove What's the difference between Michael Gove and a plastic surgeon? A plastic surgeon tucks features, but For a while, Michael Gove was one of the…
We shall reach them in the classrooms: Promoting a 'military ethos' in schools
Will McCallum Fostering a 'military ethos' in schools: what's going on. Earlier this month the Department for Education published a statement on their website outlining their ambition to promote…
Gove is wrong, we should scrap exams at 16 altogether
The Conservative proposals to do away with GCSEs and re-introduce, in some form, a two tier O-Level / CSE-like system has understandably created controversy and distress among many critics and…
Democratising the economy, one university at a time
by Mike Williamson A few salvoes have been fired this week in the ideological battle for democratic and public higher education. Harriet Swain wrote an interesting exploratory article in the…
Deregulation of universities has led to an attack on students and the workforce.
An enormous discrepancy was revealed between the University of Birmingham’s “public narrative” on its finances and the private accounts actually used to run the university. Further it is setting up…
Education Inc – Universities are entering the fray
GAs the guardian reported, free school applications are open again. An ever more diverse range of groups are entering the fray for what is becoming a market in primary, secondary…
This is a crisis for education
This post is the first in a series Bright Green is doing in collaboration with an alliance of groups campaigning against the government’s ‘Opening Public Services’ proposals. The Government plans…
Review of Higher Education & Student Finance in England
Half a century ago just 6% of young people went to university, paid for through general taxation. The other 94% subsidised those 6%, but that was OK because the people…