By Unis Resist Border Controls (URBC) During the last days of the initial 10 day strike during February-March 2022 at … More
Tag: UCU
#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.
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.
‘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
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.
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
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
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.
Podcast: Student-Worker Solidarity In The University of Liverpool Strikes
In the first episode of the new Beyond Education Podcast, Kirsty Morrin and Dave Ridley talk to recently graduated student … More
Composting the Neoliberal University
David Ridley turns Richard Hall’s reflections on the ‘university at the end of the end of history’ into organic matter.