At University College London, students and lecturers alike have near unanimously passed votes of no confidence in the running of their university. With a nationwide academic strike in full-swing, this could well be the beginning of the end for the neoliberal university project.
The women of Yarl’s Wood are on hunger strike for adequate healthcare provision, for improved legal access and an end to indefinite detention.
On this emergency TyskySour Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker discuss who will be the next general secretary of the Labour Party after the riotous resignation of Iain McNicol.
On this episode of The Fix we say hello to Corbyn’s new Customs Union, wave goodbye to Comrade McNicol and celebrate day three of the #UCU pensions strike. Featuring Aaron Bastani, Michael Walker and Amelia Horgan (NUS post-grad rep).
As tens of thousands of lecturers and other university staff across the country begin striking in protest against changes to their pensions, an anonymous University of London worker lays out the intricacies of the situation impacting workers in the capital.
Today was the first of fourteen days of strike action by the University and Colleges Union (UCU) over proposed 40% cuts to the USS pensions scheme. 61 campuses are taking part in the largest strike action in UK Higher education history. Callum Cant went to the picket lines to find out more.
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