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NUS: poison or panacea to the student movement?
Photo: National Union of Students Watching the setting sun cast an orange glow across the English Channel from the Brighton seafront, your eyes are instantly drawn to the rusting remains…
Students fight deportation of NUS Officer for Refugees
Photo courtesy of @Julz2k5 on Twitter. Students across Britain are organising protests demanding the immediate release of fellow student Lord Elias Mensah Apetsi, who faces deportation on Tuesday to Ghana…
Young Greens highlight ‘radical possibilities’ of UK’s EU membership as Caroline Lucas joins official ‘In’ campaign
Mini Europe. Photo by Smabs Sputzer. The Young Greens of England and Wales have called for young people to “fight for the EU” in the forthcoming referendum, saying that…
WTF is wrong with education?
It is hard to sum up succinctly the multitude of problems facing the educational system in the UK. One need only think of trebled tuition fees, removing the caps on…
Left-wing breakthrough at NUS Conference
ACC Liverpool, where this week's drama was played out. Photo: William Pinkney-Baird. From Tuesday to Thursday of this week, delegates from across the UK flooded into Liverpool for NUS…
‘We need to get students to leverage the political potential in the local population’: interview with Abdi-aziz Suleiman
William Pinkney-Baird interviews Abdi-aziz Suleiman, standing for Vice President Union Development at NUS Conference next week, in the sixth and final of a series of interviews with some of the…
‘We need to represent the most marginalised voices and support local students’ unions achieve their goals’: interview with Sorana Vieru
In the fourth of a series of interviews with some of the left-wing candidates for NUS leadership, William Pinkney-Baird interviews Sorana Vieru, standing for Vice President Higher Education at NUS…
My university is trying to ban me from protesting – because they know it works
'This protest is about students reclaiming possession of education, rejecting cuts and defending our right to protest. We will not be silenced.' Photo: Shelly Asquith Almost a month ago, I…
‘Without college funding, there’s not going to be any reason to fight for other causes’ – interview with Shakira Martin, candidate for NUS VP Further Education
In the second of a series of interviews with some of the left-wing candidates for NUS leadership, William Pinkney-Baird interviews Shakira Martin, standing for VP Further Education. ‘We’re screaming that…
‘We need to make a principled leftwing intervention into NUS’: interview with Hattie Craig, candidate for VP Higher Education
William Pinkney-Baird interviews Hattie Craig, standing for NUS Vice President for Higher Education, in the first of a series of interviews with some of the left-wing candidates for the NUS…