More than three quarters of higher education experts do not believe the current loans system to be sustainable, according to research published in the Times Higher Education Supplement. Within five or ten years there will be yet another significant change in the HE funding model and it is very important that we plan now to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Students’
‘We’re All In This Together’
Dec 30th, 2011 by Owen Jones.2011 was the year the phoney war ended or – as the kids say these days, so I’m told – shit got real. When queues of anxious customers demanding their money suddenly formed outside Northern Rock over four years ago, it seemed like a slightly surreal – but one-off – disruption to normality, like an [...]
NUS President election: Interview with Mark Bergfeld
Feb 27th, 2011 by Owen Jones.Following Aaron Porter’s announcement that he is stepping down when he has completed his term in office, the race is on for the next President of the National Union of Students. With the student movement more high-profile than ever, the contest is significant for students and non-students alike. There are three candidates standing: Mark Bergfeld, Liam Burns [...]
NUS President election: Interview with Shane Chowen
Feb 25th, 2011 by Owen Jones.Following Aaron Porter’s announcement that he is stepping down when he has completed his term in office, the race is on for the next President of the National Union of Students. With the student movement more high-profile than ever, the contest is significant for students and non-students alike. There are three candidates standing: Mark Bergfeld, Liam [...]
NUS President election: Interview with Liam Burns
Feb 24th, 2011 by Owen Jones.Following Aaron Porter’s announcement that he is stepping down when he has completed his term in office, the race is on for the next President of the National Union of Students. With the student movement more high-profile than ever, the contest is significant for students and non-students alike. There are three candidates standing: Mark Bergfeld, Liam [...]
Why Aaron Porter had to go
Feb 21st, 2011 by Owen Jones.It’s official: Aaron Porter will no longer be the British student movement’s official figurehead. For only the second time since 1969, a NUS President will not serve a second term. To date, the NUS Presidency has proved a fairly pain-free launchpad for a glamorous political career that ends in a Labour Cabinet: ask Jack Straw, Charles Clarke [...]
Police spies – a cautionary tale
Jan 13th, 2011 by Darrell Goodliffe.The tale of undercover police officer Mark Kennedy and the environmental protest group is usually the stuff of kitsch action films. Indeed, according to reports there is a possibility it will become one. A sad and indicative comment on capitalism as a social system that real-life betrayal and grief is an ideal candidate for instant [...]
Leaderless youth will not bring this Government down
Jan 4th, 2011 by Owen Jones.The modern left has few more treasured iconic events than the French uprising of May 1968. 10 million workers occupied or walked out of their workplaces in the biggest general strike in European history. Thousands of radical students demanded the end of French capitalism. As barricades were erected across the nation, President Charles de Gaulle flew to [...]
