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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…
We Need to Free Our Education From Neoliberal Thinking
Photo: pixabay user 'padrinan', Creative Commons 0 license In the past couple of years, the Government has created a programme with the aim of 'raising aspirations' for Higher Education…
Why I hate the National Student Survey
Photo: Pixabay use 'skeeze'. Creative Commons The National Student Survey: what’s it all about? I mean, seriously, what the fuck is the NSS supposed to be? I get the…
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…
The TEF: why it isn’t good enough
The word ‘EDUCATION’ written on the side of a dirty building. Photo by Alan Levine via Flickr () In December, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) released…
I’ve graduated from uni, but I fear for those who come after me
View image | In July, I graduated from my university, bringing to an end the best 3 years of my life. I discovered so much about myself and fell in love…
Young Greens slam “callous” government over scrapped maintenance grants
Photo: William Pinkney-Baird The youth and student wing of the Green Party has criticised the government over its plans to scrap maintenance grants for poorer students, as contained in yesterday's Budget.…
Chapman Wins Aberdeen on Pledge to Defend Tenants
Co-convenor of the Scottish Greens and Bright Green Special Contributor Maggie Chapman has been elected Rector of the University of Aberdeen by a huge majority. Her campaign was spearheaded by…