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A Few Reasons Why Changes to Student Loan Repayments Could Decimate Your Income

Hannah Sketchley

With the post-2012 fee regime now costing as much as the old one, student loan repayments are changing. Here's why the most boringly packaged part of the budget is likely to make graduates poorer.

4 Reasons the UCL Rent Strike Victory is Important for All Students

Hope Worsdale and Callum Cant

The UCL rent strike has emerged victorious, with the university forced to cough up £100k for the "unacceptable living conditions" of its student halls. With a national free education demo coming up, the win comes at an excellent time for students.

5 Student Strikes That Show How Students Can Win

Josh Berlyne and Callum Cant

Who cares if students don't go to class? With the idea of a student strike being pushed onto the UK student movement agenda, it's a good time to look at some examples from around the world.

6 Things Warwick University’s New Temp Agency Tells Us About Academic Precarity

John Murray

Warwick University has announced plans to employ all casual staff through an internal temp agency. Anti-casualisation campaigners have targeted the move as an insidious form of outsourcing which threatens the whole sector.

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.

Access, Intersectionality, Autonomy: What the NUS’s Misuse of Language Means for the Left

Tom Scrivener

NUS conference is around the corner, and student activists and bureaucrats of varying stripes will undoubtedly wage war against one another once again. In recent years some key concepts from the radical left have gained traction with the NUS mainstream, but what does that mean for the left?

5 Reasons the Graduate Tax isn’t a Patch on Free Education

Callum Cant

In the face of a burgeoning free education movement, Labour is making noises about reducing the fee cap and moving to a graduate tax model. But can this really match up to what the free education movement is demanding? (Spoiler: no.)

5 Possible Effects of the Met’s ‘Pay-to-Protest’ Policies

Hannah Sketchley

The Metropolitan Police recently told campaigners demonstrations would only be policed if they were expected to be crime-free, with organisers advised to hire private security. What are the implications for radical movements?

‘Print this Map. Get off the Internet. Take to the Streets’: 5 of the Left’s Best Mapping Moments

Sam Hind

From the Paris Commune to the Situationists, mapping and radical politics have a rich shared history. In this article Sam Hind traces some of the key cartographic moments from the civil rights movement to the student movement.

What’s a ‘Graduate Tax’ and Why Should You Care?

Tom Scrivener

Labour are set to replace the current tuition fee regime with a 'graduate tax', but what does this mean for higher education, future students and the fight for free education?

On the #SussexFive and Celebrating our Victories

Adriano Mérola Marotta

When the University of Sussex indefinitely suspended five students in 2013 for taking part in an occupation of its conference centre, the public backlash could not have been predicted. This week the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education ruled that the university had been wrong, forcing it to compensate the students and formally apologise.

Profits, pay days and protest: 7 Reasons University Pay Gaps Need to Be Tackled

Josh Berlyne

In the first few weeks of 2015, most university vice-chancellors will earn more than their lowest paid member of staff will take home all year. Josh Berlyne from the Free University of Sheffield argues that these inequalities have no place in the future of higher education.

“WTF is happening?!” – Warwick, the police and the new student movement

Craig McVegas

Scenes of CS spray and a Taser being pulled on a British university campus have shocked thousands, but if the new student movement is to dig its heels in, it can expect more where that came from, writes Craig McVegas.

7 Reflections on the National Demo for #FreeEducation

Craig McVegas

Wednesday's national demonstration for free education could have gone either way. As it stands, people are excited that it may now be the spark for a new student movement that will fight for - and crucially, could win - free education.

6 Reasons the Defence of ULU is Vital to Students Everywhere

Michael Chessum

The University of London Union is due to be closed down by University of London management on 1 August. If all goes to Vice Chancellor Adrian Smith's plan, the building will be seized and the union replaced by a management-run 'student service centre'. Since 2010, ULU has in many ways been at the heart of the student movement nationally, and its closure is indicative of a broader trend of commercialisation in the sector.

Getting the Books Straight: 6 Things You Should Know About Student Loans

Craig McVegas

Student loans are back in the news, this time over anticipated repayments. Expectedly, the coverage around the issue has been obscured with jargon and spin, so here's a concise guide to the main things you really need to know in order to get your head around - and tackle - the latest developments in the student loan book debacle.

5 Reasons Free Education is Still Worth It

Alia Al Ghussain

The idea of education as a commodity and universities as sausage factories only seems to be on the rise, meanwhile any semblance of a higher education as a social good accessible to all only seems to becoming the stuff of fantasy. This article takes on the normalization of market logic being applied to education, as well as the NUS's preferred - and embarrassing - 'graduate tax' policy, to argue that nothing short of free education should be demanded to reclaim education.

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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A Few Reasons Why Changes to Student Loan Repayments Could Decimate Your Income

Hannah Sketchley

4 Reasons the UCL Rent Strike Victory is Important for All Students

Hope Worsdale and Callum Cant

5 Student Strikes That Show How Students Can Win

Josh Berlyne and Callum Cant

6 Things Warwick University’s New Temp Agency Tells Us About Academic Precarity

John Murray

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

Tom Scrivener

Access, Intersectionality, Autonomy: What the NUS’s Misuse of Language Means for the Left

Tom Scrivener

5 Reasons the Graduate Tax isn’t a Patch on Free Education

Callum Cant

5 Possible Effects of the Met’s ‘Pay-to-Protest’ Policies

Hannah Sketchley

What’s a ‘Graduate Tax’ and Why Should You Care?

Tom Scrivener

On the #SussexFive and Celebrating our Victories

Adriano Mérola Marotta

Profits, pay days and protest: 7 Reasons University Pay Gaps Need to Be Tackled

Josh Berlyne

“WTF is happening?!” – Warwick, the police and the new student movement

Craig McVegas

7 Reflections on the National Demo for #FreeEducation

Craig McVegas

6 Reasons the Defence of ULU is Vital to Students Everywhere

Michael Chessum

Getting the Books Straight: 6 Things You Should Know About Student Loans

Craig McVegas

5 Reasons Free Education is Still Worth It

Alia Al Ghussain

3 Years On… 7 Fragments on the Latest Winter Rebellions

Craig McVegas

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A Few Reasons Why Changes to Student Loan Repayments Could Decimate Your Income

Hannah Sketchley

4 Reasons the UCL Rent Strike Victory is Important for All Students

Hope Worsdale and Callum Cant

5 Student Strikes That Show How Students Can Win

Josh Berlyne and Callum Cant

6 Things Warwick University’s New Temp Agency Tells Us About Academic Precarity

John Murray

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

Tom Scrivener

Access, Intersectionality, Autonomy: What the NUS’s Misuse of Language Means for the Left

Tom Scrivener

5 Reasons the Graduate Tax isn’t a Patch on Free Education

Callum Cant

5 Possible Effects of the Met’s ‘Pay-to-Protest’ Policies

Hannah Sketchley

‘Print this Map. Get off the Internet. Take to the Streets’: 5 of the Left’s Best Mapping Moments

Sam Hind

What’s a ‘Graduate Tax’ and Why Should You Care?

Tom Scrivener

On the #SussexFive and Celebrating our Victories

Adriano Mérola Marotta

Profits, pay days and protest: 7 Reasons University Pay Gaps Need to Be Tackled

Josh Berlyne

“WTF is happening?!” – Warwick, the police and the new student movement

Craig McVegas

7 Reflections on the National Demo for #FreeEducation

Craig McVegas

6 Reasons the Defence of ULU is Vital to Students Everywhere

Michael Chessum

Getting the Books Straight: 6 Things You Should Know About Student Loans

Craig McVegas

5 Reasons Free Education is Still Worth It

Alia Al Ghussain

3 Years On… 7 Fragments on the Latest Winter Rebellions

Craig McVegas

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