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2 Steps Towards the Socialisation of the UCU Strike

Callum Cant

Yesterday members of the University and College Union finished a 48 hour strike. Officially the dispute is over pay, but if staff and students want to take on the central issue - the marketisation of the sector - it will require some innovation.

4 Ideas for the Comprehensive University

Tom Cutterham

On Wednesday thousands of students will demonstrate in support of free education. But if the possibility of a properly free, liberated education is limited by the structure of existing HE institutions, what would the alternative look like?

Free Education, the Middle Classes and Radical Education Policy: a 5-Point Analysis

Sol Gamsu

Nearly half of the UK's young people are going to university, so where does the institutional privilege lie and what can we say about social mobility? If the demand for free education is to be successful, we need a class analysis of HE.

5 Reasons the Teaching in Excellence Framework is Bad News for Higher Education

Jess Patterson

Following in the footsteps of the loathed Research Excellence Framework (REF), the proposed Teaching Excellence Framework intends to allocate funding using dubious metrics for ranking HE institutions.

3 Reasons the UAL Occupation Matters to FE, HE and the Free Education Movement

Tom Scrivener

Like other recent direct actions such as at LSE, the University of the Arts London occupation is rooted in the free education movement. But the task of articulating longer term goals alongside combating immediate course cuts presents fresh challenges for students in the face of an ongoing restructuring of education.

4 Ways Generation Y is Being Taken for a Ride (and 3 Ways it’s Pushing Back)

AltGen

Youth unemployment is sky-rocketing and Cameron is seeking to take away benefits from young people. Against this trend of declining living standards, students in the US are organising debt strikes and in the UK youth-led workers' co-operatives are multiplying.

3 Years On… 7 Fragments on the Latest Winter Rebellions

Next to the storming of Millbank, 9th December 2010 arguably saw the most notable ‘moment of excess’ of the Coalition-era student movement. Over the course of about ten hours, thousands of young students from universities, colleges and schools found themselves on the wrong end of police batons, riot shields and horse charges. Suddenly, aggressively, masses […]

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4 Ideas for the Comprehensive University

Tom Cutterham

Free Education, the Middle Classes and Radical Education Policy: a 5-Point Analysis

Sol Gamsu

5 Reasons the Teaching in Excellence Framework is Bad News for Higher Education

Jess Patterson

3 Reasons the UAL Occupation Matters to FE, HE and the Free Education Movement

Tom Scrivener

4 Ways Generation Y is Being Taken for a Ride (and 3 Ways it’s Pushing Back)

AltGen

3 Years On… 7 Fragments on the Latest Winter Rebellions

Craig McVegas

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2 Steps Towards the Socialisation of the UCU Strike

Callum Cant

4 Ideas for the Comprehensive University

Tom Cutterham

Free Education, the Middle Classes and Radical Education Policy: a 5-Point Analysis

Sol Gamsu

5 Reasons the Teaching in Excellence Framework is Bad News for Higher Education

Jess Patterson

3 Reasons the UAL Occupation Matters to FE, HE and the Free Education Movement

Tom Scrivener

4 Ways Generation Y is Being Taken for a Ride (and 3 Ways it’s Pushing Back)

AltGen

3 Years On… 7 Fragments on the Latest Winter Rebellions

Craig McVegas

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