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2012 was a year to forget for the Tories. It was, in the main, a year to forget for student activists as well, writes K D Tait. The first year…
January 20, 2013 / Comments Off / Read More
On November 21 the National Union of Students (NUS) will march in London under the slogan ‘Educate, Employ, Empower’. The protest is supported by the National Campaign Against Fees and…
November 15, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Gove’s reactionary policy for schools means… Education for exploitation, argues James Copley…
November 13, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
‘Time to tackle the dumbing down’ is the new slogan of the Tory education ‘reforms’ which aim to make school serve the needs of the market, not the students. At…
October 15, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
WHEN IT IS 38 degrees in the sun, not much stirs in the centre of Athens. But on 24 August 10,000 mainly young, male migrant workers from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan…
September 10, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
THE ACTS of resistance taken by thousands of young people during the student movement of winter 2010-11 shook the government and sparked months of mass opposition to cuts. KD Tait writes…
September 10, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
IF YOU ARE a new student reading this there’s a good chance you’ve started a course that will see you graduate with around £50,000 worth of debt. Two years after hundreds…
September 10, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
YOUNG PEOPLE in Tory Britain are caught between a rock and a hard place. Youth unemployment stands at over 20 per cent – over one million people. For young black…
September 10, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
JUST WEEKS after London was touted as a multicultural paradise during the Olympics, international students at London Metropolitan University have been told to find a new university place or face deportation.…
September 10, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Three members of the Russian radical feminist band Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”. The verdict…
September 10, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More