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21 March 2012
Student walkout: Socialist Students show what could have been
The one thing not lacking on our university campuses, in our schools and at our colleges is anger. We've already seen the Con-Dems triple fees and scrap EMA. Now students face courses cut to the bone,...
29 February 2012
Continuing the pensions battle - Universities
University workers face cuts, privatisation and outsourcing as the government seeks to turn universities into profit-generating units for their rich friends, writes Ivan Bonsell
29 February 2012
Student walkout - build mass action
The National Union of Students (NUS) has called a walkout against cuts and privatisation for 14 March, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
13 February 2012
Lecturers in colleges and 'post-92' universities will join 28 March pensions strike
Post-16 education is currently under a serious onslaught from the Con-Dem coalition. Students are suffering from cuts to EMA in further education and £9,000 annual fees in higher education, while staff, represented by the University and College Union are facing attacks on their pensions
Waltham Forest teachers and lecturers on the 30 June coordinated strike action by the PCS civil service union and NUT, ATL and UCU teaching unions, photo Senan
8 February 2012
Two years ago, University and College Union (UCU) honorary treasurer Alan Carr promised conference that UCU would deliver "the fight of our lives" if the government, whether Labour or Tory, attacked lecturers' pensions, writes Edmund Schluessel.
Student protest 29 Jan
1 February 2012
NUS: name the day for student walkout
This week there has been another set of statistics showing that £50,000 worth of debt is enough to make many people rethink plans to go to university
12 October 2011
Students should support 30 November strikes: On 8 September this year 283 out of 420 Greek higher education institutions were under occupation. This will remind many in this country of when over 50 universities in the UK were occupied
5 October 2011
Chilean students in fifth month of protests
The last five months have witnessed the biggest social movement in Chile since the fall of former dictator General Pinochet, writes Iain Dalton, Youth Fight for Jobs Yorkshire organiser.
21 September 2011
University - pay more, receive less
I was pained to learn that I would be saddled with £20,000 worth of debt when I leave university, when previous generations had been able to study effectively for free, writes Alex Wortley, Bristol.
29 June 2011
Private railways rip off fares
Research undertaken for the RMT transport union shows that passengers on privatised UK trains have to fork out £4.6 billion a year more than equivalent travellers in France, where railways remain publicly owned.
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