Education as Emancipation – Beyond Tuition Fees #7
Photo Credit: Rowan Gavin 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…
THOUGHTS FROM THE FRONTLINE OF MARKETISATION – BEYOND TUITION FEES #3
Photo Credit: Rowan Gavin 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…
Unions and students step up fight to save education
The fight to save public education in the UK took a step forward this week as two more unions declared ballot results in favour of strike action this Autumn. Yesterday…
A Diversity of Tactics
Photo courtesy of Stitch via flickr One thing became clear on Wednesday - the movement against cuts won't be led. People are angry, and they won't allow that anger to…
Kept your Promises? No you Haven’t.
On Sunday John Hemming, Lib Dem MP for Birmingham Yardley, claimed that not only had the Lib Dems stuck to their pre-election pledge to introduce a fairer system of university…
Education is a Public Good – We Should Fund it Publicly
"universities have a unique role. We cannot have an economically dynamic, socially mobile or culturally rich society without strong universities." So started Vince Cable's speech today at London South Bank…