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 Reflecting on migrant students and staff, UCU strikes, and UK student activism

By Unis Resist Border Controls (URBC) During the last days of the initial 10 day strike during February-March 2022 at…

higher education, hostile environment, NUS, solidarity, UCU

Podcast: Demystifying Abolition In Education With No More Exclusions

Beyond Education (BE) talks to No More Exclusions about sexual violence, the abolition movement, non-hierarchical organising, and more.

abolition, decolonisation, no more exclusions, schools
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Aspiration and Upward Mobility: The Lies Working-Class Students Are Told About Educational Inequalities

By Amy Cayzer Bimini: You just got to try’n have a PMA. Lawrence: Fuck’s a PMA? Bimini: A positive mental…

higher education, mobility, working class

#USSstrike: USS Unis See £3.5bn Surplus Boost While Cutting 2,600 Jobs

Universities participating in the USS pension scheme posted £3.6bn surplus during 2020/21, thanks in part to slashing 2,600 jobs, finds UCU activist James Brackley.

finance, higher education, pensions, UCU, universities, USSstrike

Podcast: How To Win The Battle For Our Universities

Beyond Education talks to Goldsmiths UCU case-worker and negotiator Roberto Mozzachiodi and former Liverpool UCU president Anthony O’Hanlon about how to win battles for the future of our universities.

#casualisation, #goldsmiths, #liverpool, #precarity, direct action, education, higher education, solidarity, students, UCU, universities

‘I’ll just buy a fake plant’. On plasticity of selves, precariousness and resistance in the neoliberal academia

‘I’ll just buy a fake plant’. This is what I said to my colleague yesterday during our lunch break. ‘I…

higher education, neoliberalism, solidarity, UCU, universities

From England to Chile and Back Again – Learning from the 2010-11 Student Movement

David Ridley speaks to Hector Rios-Jara about the 2010-11 student movement in the UK and Chile.

Chile, direct action, higher education, neoliberalism, solidarity, students, UCU, universities

Podcast: Facing The Future With Generation Left

In this episode, Beyond Education’s Kirsty Morrin and Dave Ridley speak to Faolan Ingram and his friend Max, two young…

climate change, direct action, generationleft, Greta Thunburg, KilltheBill, students, youth

What’s Coming For (English) Higher Education?

Pt. 2: Framing the Fight, Narrating the Alternative This is the second part of a long chat I had with…

education, higher education, solidarity, students, UCU, universities

Capital vs Caring; building a mental health offer that actually works

Andrew Gladstone-Heighton discusses the impact of our current system on young peoples mental health, explaining that solidarity, and not the wellness market, is the way out of this crisis.

ableism, capitalist realism, education, Mark Fisher, mental health, solidarity, students

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