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Socialist Students in Exeter did a debt-o-meter on the Campaign to Defeat Fees day of action, photo Jim THomsom
6 October 2010
Students will this week find out what future Lord Browne has in store for them. The multi-millionaire Baron of Madingley (the beneficiary of an Oxbridge education himself) has for almost a year been heading an 'independent' review into higher education funding and student finance.
6 October 2010
Campaigning Socialist Students win support
Nottingham: SOCIALIST STUDENTS made a great impact on Nottingham Trent University's freshers' fair. In three hours, around 200 signatures were collected in support of our campaign against the government's planned...
29 September 2010
Socialist Students: showing an alternative to cuts and fees
Swansea, Leeds, Lincoln, Brunel, Wolverhampton: Socialist Students members and supporters have had a busy start to what promises to be a busy academic year...
15 September 2010
How will the Browne Review into university funding affect you?
In October the review into university funding will be published. This report, initiated by the previous New Labour government with the backing of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, is focusing on...
4 August 2010
No to privatisation of our universities
As well as huge cuts, the Con-Dem government's agenda for higher education includes throwing open the doors to the creation of private universities...
Leeds Youth Fight For Jobs demo February 2010, photo Leeds Socialist Party
21 July 2010
Youth and students: organise to fight for a future
After New Labour's axe men began the education cuts, the Con-Dem butchers seem to have been let loose with a chainsaw. Proposed cuts to university budgets over the next two years amount to £1 billion. £340 million is being removed from college budgets. The UCU lecturers' union believes this will mean 34,000 job losses...
15 July 2010
Lib Dems propose student graduate tax: Students must fight for free education
The Lib Dem Business and Skills secretary, Vince Cable, has asked the higher education funding review, chaired by Lord Browne, to consider his proposal of a graduate tax as an alternative to higher tuition fees, writes Matt Dobson.
30 June 2010
Students say no to rip-off graduation ceremony
While Socialist Students at Huddersfield University set up a protest against graduation ceremony charges on a busy open day on 17 June, we were informed by the president of the student union that the vice chancellor and his deputy wanted to speak to us, writes Chris Parkin and Nicola Blanchfield.
23 June 2010
Youth speak for jobs at UCU union rally
I was invited to address the UCU union's day of action rally in Nottingham on Sunday on behalf of Youth Fight for Jobs, writes Jethro Waldron.
16 June 2010
Willetts approves tuition fees hike
ON 9 June the new universities minister, David Willetts, gave his clearest indication yet of his government's intention to raise tuition fees, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield.
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