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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 … More

higher education, hostile environment, NUS, solidarity, UCU
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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 … More

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 … More

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

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 … More

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

What’s Coming For (English) Higher Education?

David Ridley speaks to Red Square Movement’s Zac Larkham and Connor Moylett about what’s coming next for English HE and the way forward for the student movement.

fees, higher education, human capital, students, universities

Building Broad Bases: Staff – Student Solidarity in Higher Education

Zac Larkham discusses the power of student rent strikes, HE industrial action and what we learn from one another when we join forces

direct action, higher education, organising, rent strikes, solidarity, students, UCU, unions, universities

Podcast: Radical Education In The Liverpool University Strikes

Beyond Education’s Kirsty Morrin and Dave Ridley continue their chat with Esme Flinders, a student at the University of Liverpool, about the UCU strikes, and the importance of radical education, for example teach outs.

critical pedagogy, higher education, liverpool, radical education, strikes, teach outs, UCU, universities

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