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Feature: How UK Universities Are Cracking Down on Pro-Palestine Occupations

Christophe Domec

The London School of Economics used a court order to evict a campus pro-Palestine encampment this week. As universities crack down on protest, Christophe Domec asks, what next for student occupations?

a person with a keffiyeh covering their face, with only their eyes visible, holds a homemade cardboard sign above their head on which is written in the black, white, red and green colours of the palestinian flag: 'from the river to the sea, palestine will be free'

Report: A Student Was Referred to Prevent for Tweeting ‘From the River to the Sea’

Rivkah Brown

Tugba Iyigun, a former journalist who fled Turkey, received a visit from North Yorkshire police officers for a single tweet about her local pro-Palestine demo. Rivkah Brown reports.

UCU members march during a strike in London in November 2022. WIktor Szymanowicz via Reuters Connect

Report: Universities Are Docking Lecturers’ Entire Pay for Not Marking a Few Exams

Polly Smythe

Academic staff face losing their entire month's pay over a marking and assessment boycott which will see them refuse a few hours' work.

UCU workers demonstrating. Wiktor Szymanowicz via Reuters Connect

Feature: What’s Going on With the Industrial Dispute at UK Universities?

Polly Smythe

In a long running dispute over pay, conditions and pensions, UCU hailed a historic breakthrough in negotiations. Not all academics were convinced. Polly Smythe Reports.

Image shows a group of students at the University of Nottingham staging a protest. They are holding a sign that reads: "Arms dealers off our campus, University of Nottingham have blood on their hands"

Report: Students at UK Universities Are Helping Develop Killer Robots

Zac Larkham

Chronic underfunding in higher education is allowing the arms industry to step in and fuel autonomous weapons systems research, reports Zac Larkham.

Terraced houses in Sheffield

Report: This Company Promised Students Their Energy Bills Were Fixed. Now They’re ‘Bullying’ Them Into Paying More

Simon Childs

UniHomes is jacking rates for cash-strapped students who signed 'fixed-cost' utility contracts. Simon Childs reports.

Henry Chango Lopez, general secretary of the, Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain, holds a metaphone. In front of him a sign that reads: LSHTM: End Structural Racism.

Report: A Prestigious London University Has Suspended Four Latinx Cleaners for Protesting Racist Pay, Falsely Accusing Them of Violence

Polly Smythe

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is embroiled in another race scandal. Polly Smythe reports.

Analysis: How Striking Lecturers Won Their Students’ Support

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

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.

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Jonathan Dollimore joins James Butler to talk sex, subversion and truly dangerous knowledge.

Opinion: Attacks on the Arts Are Part of the Tories’ Culture War

Chardine Taylor-Stone

Earlier this month the government announced plans to cut funding for arts subjects at universities by 50%. Why? Because attacks on the arts play into the Tories’ confected culture war between salt-of-the-earth folk with ‘proper’ jobs and the ‘metropolitan elite’, argues Chardine Taylor-Stone.

Downstream: Is the Left Failing on Free Speech? Interview With Ronan Burtenshaw

Does the right actually care about free speech? Why should free speech matter to the left? Aaron Bastani speaks to editor of Tribune Magazine, Ronan Burtenshaw.

Gavin Williamson addresses country in covid address

Opinion: To the Free Speech Warriors of the Right, Only Some Speech Matters

Barnaby Raine

We shouldn’t be confused by the Tories championing free speech one moment, suppressing it the next. It’s always been perfectly clear whose speech matters to them, argues Barnaby Raine.

Opinion: Students, Here’s How to Organise a Rent Strike

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: We Must Not Let the Government Blame Students for a Second Wave

Dana Mills

It isn't safe for students to return to university campuses, and letting them do so gives the government somebody else to blame if Covid cases rise again. Dana Mills argues that lecturers must heed the call of unions and learn from the example of the United States, and insist that teaching happens online.

Opinion: Private Schools Have Always Let Wealthy Students Jump the University Queue

Mark Jago

A-level downgrading has made clear the class discrimination that has always been inherent in the schooling system, writes Mark Jago. Universities should take this chance to amend admissions procedures to reduce rather than exacerbate inequality.

Why Are University Staff Going on Strike? Here’s What You Need to Know

Oliver Eagleton

University staff across the UK walk out tomorrow for the first time since March 2018. The strike resumes the struggle over detrimental pension changes, with further demands on casualisation and equal pay.

Should Students Demand Refunds? 3 Perspectives on Student Demands in the UCU Strike

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.

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