10 years on from the student revolt, marketisation is still haunting our universities
How can we be in a situation where we are seeing students trapped behind fences on their own campuses? People have rightly reacted with horror, but this is a logical…
Beyond Tuition Fees #11- Much to Learn, More to Do
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…
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…
WHAT ARE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITIES MADE OF? – BEYOND TUITION FEES #6
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…
FREEING EDUCATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS – BEYOND TUITION FEES #5
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…
The tuition fee debate needs to be about so much more than student debt
Photo by Antony Bennison, Creative Commons Licence. Since Labour pledged to scrap tuition fees, the debate around university funding has been blown wide open. Both praise and criticism of…
Police suppress challenges to university marketisation
Clifford Fleming is the co-convenor of the Young Greens of England and Wales, and Campaigns and Citizenship Officer at the University of Manchester Students’ Union. He tweets Universities are places…
Academics and the defence of their universities
Luke Martell An inspiring Convention for Higher Education in Brighton has made an important step forward, discussing what the public university should be, and investigating the implications of its marketisation.…