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23 September 2020
University workers and students must unite in a fight for safety
19 August 2020
Students 2 : 0 Tories - Protests work!
The anger of school students has forced a humiliating double U-turn over A-level and GCSE grade moderation. Now fight for a decent future for all young people!
5 August 2020
What would socialist universities look like?
Record numbers of 18-year-olds in the UK have applied to go to university this September. Applications are up 1.6% for UK students and 10% for international students.
3 June 2020
Reject the university employers' offer on pay, workload and casualisation
Over the last 12 months University and College Union (UCU) members have undertaken a determined struggle in the 'four fights' dispute, taking 22 days of strike action over pay, casualisation, workload and pay inequality
5 May 2020
Pay full fees for virtual courses? - No way!
The HE sector faces a massive funding 'black hole' which could see thousands of job losses
15 April 2020
Plymouth students discuss rent strike
The Old Dairy is private rented accommodation provided by Host to students in the University of Plymouth and Plymouth College of Art, writes Sami Vickery, Plymouth College of Art student and Old Dairy tenant.
27 November 2019
Uni strike takes fight to bosses
Socialist Party members and Socialist Students visited UCU picket lines at universities
9 October 2019
The University of York freshers fair revealed an enthusiastic response to Socialist ideas. Queues of students lined up to hear about our chance to take down the Tories and fight for workers' control of society.
5 June 2019
Theresa May admits tuition fees system is broken - but plans new attacks on students
Theresa May has admitted that her and the Tories got it wrong on tuition fees and higher education funding.
10 April 2019
It's one world for the super-rich, and enotehr for the rest of us. Socialism worries, bills, uni art splurge, agency austerity
20 March 2019
Top unis threaten cuts if tuition fees
The elitist club of top universities known as the Russell Group has recently threatened that any reduction of student tuition fees will result in cuts to course numbers, as well as the arts and social mobility programmes.
6 February 2019
Struggling unis account for bulk of unconditional offers - end education marketisation!
It has been revealed that 20 universities are responsible for the massive spike in unconditional offers to students.
7 November 2018
Unison HE ballot: Anti-union rules block action
Unison trade union members at universities across the UK voted 62% in favour of strike action after rejecting the employers' final offer of 2% (with slightly higher increases for the lowest paid of up to 2.7%).
7 November 2018
University bankruptcy threat - kick the market out of education
"A university going bust is more likely than at any other point in the last generation". These were the words of Nick Hillman - former advisor to Tory universities minister David Willets.
31 October 2018
UCU: General secretary censured but anti-union laws frustrate strike ballot
June's University and College Union (UCU) congress was shut down when staff walked out in response to motions criticising the general secretary Sally Hunt. The annual democratic congress reconvened on 18 October.
24 October 2018
Students and workers march for increased college funding
Over 1,000 teachers, lecturers and college students marched through central London on 17 October to demand the end to Tory cuts and austerity in education.
10 October 2018
We need democratic, rank-and-file leadership to win national UCU disputes
Big battles loom in post-16 education - the best way to win is to put UCU members in democratic control of our union
26 September 2018
Freshers fairs: socialist ideas chime with students
Reports from some Socialist Students stalls around the country
26 September 2018
Students and workers unite and fight
Socialist Students is campaigning for an autumn of resistance against Tory marketisation of our universities. For students, this has meant cuts to education services alongside rising tuition fees and massive debt.
4 June 2018
Congress shut down by staff walkouts
The UCU congress should have been a council of war for the struggle to come.
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