Report: Huel Is Targeting Cash-Strapped Students With Ads to Help Them ‘Afford to Eat’
by Moya Lothian-McLean
Huel has been accused of seeking to 'profit from mass suffering', after it had similar ads banned by the Advertising Standards Authority.
Tag: students
Report: Manchester Uni ‘Brutally’ Evicts Student Rent Strikers, in Potential Breach of Protest Rights
by Rivkah Brown
On Wednesday, Manchester University sent bailiffs to boot out student occupiers in what legal experts say could be a major breach of their rights. Rivkah Brown reports.
Report: Manchester Students Are Going on Rent Strike Again
by Rivkah Brown
Their first strike won them millions and inspired thousands of UK students to withhold their rent. Now, students at Manchester University are gearing up for round two. Rivkah Brown reports.
Report: Chinese Students Are At The Forefront Of Anti-Lockdown Protests
by Jessie Lau
Since president Xi Jinping took power in 2012, activism has been constricted. For many young people, recent mass protests are their first taste of dissent.
Report: This Company Promised Students Their Energy Bills Were Fixed. Now They’re ‘Bullying’ Them Into Paying More
by Simon Childs
UniHomes is jacking rates for cash-strapped students who signed 'fixed-cost' utility contracts. Simon Childs reports.
Analysis: Student Loans Are Now Even More of a Scam
by Aaron Bastani
The student loan system is changing again. What do the prospective reforms mean? And will they undermine the economic value of going to university? Aaron Bastani takes a look.
Analysis: How Striking Lecturers Won Their Students’ Support
by Alessio Koliulis
On the final day of UCU strikes, academic Alessio Koliulis reflects on the rebuilding of staff-student solidarity.
Opinion: We, Goldsmiths Staff, Are Striking for the Future of Our Universities
by Goldsmiths UCU Finance Working Group
When a new warden was appointed at Goldsmiths in 2019, she promised to continue the university’s ‘progressive’ legacy. Two years later, she faces massive industrial action. A group of striking workers explain.
Report: Students and Gig Economy Workers Are Uniting to Fight Capitalism in Thailand
by Gabriel Ernst
In Thailand, a radical alliance between leftist students and freshly unionised gig-economy workers is adding a new dimension to the battle against capitalism, dictatorship and the monarchy. Gabriel Ernst reports.
Opinion: 9K for What: A Fresher’s Guide to Renting in Halls
by Zac Larkham
Having pulled off the biggest rent strike in 40 years, student organisers have compiled some helpful tips for those of you renting in halls - ones that your university definitely forgot to mention.
Opinion: Students’ Unions Are Demanding a Covid-19 Discount. They Should Be Demanding Much More
by Sarah Cundy
By complaining to the manager, SUs are buying into the logic of marketisation and stifling more radical students' demands, argues Manchester University student Sarah Cundy.
Report: Students Have Been Duped Into Returning to Halls – So They’re Refusing to Pay Rent
by Rivkah Brown
On Tuesday, the University of Manchester joined the growing list of UK universities whose students are going on rent strike during the pandemic. Rivkah Brown reports on the student movement the pandemic has restarted.
Opinion: Students, Here’s How to Organise a Rent Strike
by Rosa Porter
Universities conned thousands of students into returning to campuses across the country, only to almost immediately lock them inside their dilapidated and overpriced halls, while all teaching takes place online. For students who feel they have been treated unfairly, now is the time to strike, writes housing activist Rosa Porter - and here's how to do it.
Opinion: Covid-19 Has Shown University Isn’t About Educating Young People – It’s About Exploiting Them
by Aaron Bastani
The spectacle of student lockdowns at British universities may seem absurd. But it’s just the logical conclusion of a system in which everything - including higher education - is subordinated to the interests of rentiers, landlords and big business, writes Aaron Bastani.
“It’s strikes that win”: UCU, Students and the Fight Against Outsourcing
by Joe Hayns
Over the last two days, more than 100 outsourced staff have stopped work at UoL in what will likely be the largest outsourced workers’ strike in higher education history.
Should Students Demand Refunds? 3 Perspectives on Student Demands in the UCU Strike
by Illan rua Wall, Myka Tucker-Abramson, Hope Worsdale, Elio Di Muccio
Should students demand tuition fee refunds for days lost to strike action? The response to the demand has been mixed, with no clear dividing line between those who are for and against the strike.
Elephant and Castle: Students Protest University’s Role in Gentrification
by UAL Students
Students at the University of the Arts London occupied their Southwark campus to protest the part it has to play in the creeping gentrification of Elephant and Castle.
I’m a Social Work Student Who Went on Fee Strike. Here’s What I Learned
by an Anonymous Student
Social work students at Goldsmiths university went on strike last year, when they discovered at the last minute that their NHS bursaries would not be enough to cover their increased course fees. One participant reflects on what he hoped to achieve and what he learned from taking part in the UK's first student fee strike.