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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIt's time we realised social movements are more than just a warm-up actTen years on from the UK's vast student protests, it's time to realise how important they were.
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia‘Killing a student is killing a nation’: Sudanese universities revoltSeven Sudanese public universities have witnessed waves of protests during the past week: the crackdown on civil...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA turning point in the National Union of Students?NUS conference has backed free education after many years of opposing it. Is a change in the air?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe student loan privatisation must be resistedSelling off the student loans will actually cost the government more, as well as the students - but it'll be a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKViolence, vandalism and higher educationLast week, 150 student protesters were penned by the police into an area of Birmingham University campus for 4...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCampus arrests; student solidarity: what happened at Birmingham University and why it helped forge a movement14 students were arrested and many more contained for a number of hours at a protest at Birmingham University this...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFreedom is essential to our universities, and is under attackAngry British students are teaming up with exploited university workers to resist the commercialisation of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPolice, protest and the fragility of capital
The de-facto criminalisation of lawful protest by the British police only serves to highlight the fragility of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIf security at universities isn't for students, who is it for?The London student president was arrested yesterday outside his union building for "failing to notify police of a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe spirit of youth discontent wasn't dead, just restingWith lecturers on strike, student debt being sold off to the banks, the anger of the 2010 protests is about to make...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe student loan book is being privatised. We shouldn't be naive about the implications.Plans to privatise student the student loan book threaten to become a de facto retrospective fee hike. Recent...
