17 February 2021

Conference - Sunday 28 February

- discussing how a movement can be built to transform education and students' lives.

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3 February 2021

Socialist Students open letter to Rent Strike network

Building the fightback for free education

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27 January 2021

Fees frozen at £9,250 a year, fight for free education

The Conservative government has announced that it will freeze tuition fees for another year at the current £9,250 per annum level, stating it delivers "better value for students"

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20 January 2021

Scrap fees, refund rents and pay a living grant

Right up until the last minute, the university seemed to be endlessly optimistic about how we could return this term for in-person teaching

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6 January 2021

Refund the rent, cancel the fees, for fully funded, publicly owned education

With the new lockdowns, what can students expect for the rest of the academic year?

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21 October 2020

Fight for your future at the online rally

Youth unemployment has reached 13%. On 25 October, students and young workers will be come together from across the country in an online rally hosted by Young Socialists and Socialist Students

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21 October 2020

Students: Give us our money back

Students are dissatisfied, frustrated and angry. Socialist Students decided to make a stand.

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7 October 2020

£9,000 for education by Netflix

Now is the time to join Socialist Students: After two days of leafleting on a path towards a local supermarket, Warwick Socialist Students lead a successful introductory open-air meeting

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5 May 2020

Pay full fees for virtual courses? - No way!

The HE sector faces a massive funding 'black hole' which could see thousands of job losses

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5 June 2019

Theresa May admits tuition fees system is broken - but plans new attacks on students

Theresa May has admitted that her and the Tories got it wrong on tuition fees and higher education funding.

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20 March 2019

Top unis threaten cuts if tuition fees

The elitist club of top universities known as the Russell Group has recently threatened that any reduction of student tuition fees will result in cuts to course numbers, as well as the arts and social mobility programmes.

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6 February 2019

Struggling unis account for bulk of unconditional offers - end education marketisation!

It has been revealed that 20 universities are responsible for the massive spike in unconditional offers to students.

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12 December 2018

Socialist Students LJMU victory

Socialist Students at Liverpool John Moores University has been successful in getting David Hitchmough reelected as a delegate to NUS conference where he will provide a socialist voice.

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26 September 2018

Freshers fairs: socialist ideas chime with students

Reports from some Socialist Students stalls around the country

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26 September 2018

Students and workers unite and fight

Socialist Students is campaigning for an autumn of resistance against Tory marketisation of our universities. For students, this has meant cuts to education services alongside rising tuition fees and massive debt.

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12 September 2018

Students unite and fight - free education now!

In 2017 the total student debt in the UK rose to over £100 billion

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23 May 2018

Student leaders claim one million on the streets against Brexit - fight for a workers' exit

One hundred and twenty student union officers - who have so far failed to lift a finger in the fight against tuition fees and cuts, or to support striking lecturers during the recent University and College Union dispute - have made national headlines with the claim that "over one million students demand a people's vote on the Brexit deal".

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14 March 2018

Strike continues: set dates for next national action

University strikers have determinedly fought on with their pensions strike

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3 January 2018

Mobilise against rip-off executive pay

Higher education: In the new year honours, five 'fat cat' current and former vice-chancellors were rewarded for their 'services to education'

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29 November 2017

Socialist Students day of action demands free education

London: Across England and Wales students took part in the education shutdown day of action to fight for free education on 22 November coinciding with the Tories' budget

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