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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.

An End in Sight for the Neoliberal University

by Iida Käyhkö and Charlie Macnamara

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.

Universities Are Catastrophically Failing Students on Mental Health – Here’s How We Fight Back

by Charlie Macnamara

UK students are suffering from underfunded university and NHS mental health services. But a campaign by students at University College London is showing how to fight back.

Eugenics Is Not a Fringe Issue – It Influences UK Immigration Policy

by Beth Davies-Kumadiro

It recently came to light that Toby Young was an attendee at a eugenics conference secretly held at UCL last year. But far from being a fringe issue, eugenics has worrying links to UK immigration policy, writes Beth Davies-Kumadiro.

How Rising London Rents are Funding Elite Private Schools

by Sol Gamsu

While you're shelling out to put a roof over your head, it's easy to forget who owns the ground beneath your feet. For many cash-strapped London students, rent money is helping to feather the nests of the elite - and the situation isn't uncommon.