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.
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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
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.
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.