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An End in Sight for the Neoliberal University

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.

Why the Pension Dispute Should Be of Concern to All University Workers

UoL Worker

As tens of thousands of lecturers and other university staff across the country begin striking in protest against changes to their pensions, an anonymous University of London worker lays out the intricacies of the situation impacting workers in the capital.

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

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

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.

I’m a Social Work Student Who Went on Fee Strike. Here’s What I Learned

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.

6 Ways Monetisation Is Destroying Universities From the Inside Out

Rebecca Corningstone

Universities run like businesses. Students treated like consumers. Here's how higher education in the UK is being changed for the worse.

The Security Officers Striking for Their Security

Joe Hayns

This week, security officers at the University of London went on strike to demand that they are granted the security they deserve.

Enough is Enough: UCL Climate Activists Escalate Their Fight for Divestment

Olivia Goldin and Julia Hashimoto Schaff

With over a quarter of UK universities having divested from fossil fuels, UCL activists vow to make their university finally go green.

7 Reasons the Mental Health Crisis in Universities Requires a Radical Response

Sam Jones

There's a crisis of mental health in our universities and it's getting worse. Our response must go beyond addressing the institutions that are making us ill and point the finger at the neoliberal transformation of universities.

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?

4 Things I Learnt from Arguing with University Management

John Murray

Provoked by the outcry over a police attack on a student sit-in last December, the Centre for Human Rights in Practice at the University of Warwick held a 'protest summit'. Free education activists and university bosses were invited onto the panel, making for a revealing - and sometimes heated - exchange of views.

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.)

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.

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.

Novara FM: ‘A4E in the UK’ The Political Economy of Outsourcing in the UK Since 2010

On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss outsourcing in the UK. Outsourcing has seen a massive explosion since 2010 with the UK now being the world's second largest outsourcing market.

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