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Published in: Home: Opinion‘Free speech tsar’ is the government’s latest attack on universitiesThe Conservative Party has all but outlawed public protest. Now it wants to root it out of campuses, too
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Published in: Home: NewsPre-payment meter forcibly installed in student home despite bills being paidExclusive: Students threatened by bailiffs after accommodation firm UniHomes seemingly failed to pay energy suppliers
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Published in: Home: OpinionI’ve never been on strike before. Here’s why today was differentOPINION: I’m walking out in solidarity with colleagues, even though I have my own problems as a freelancer
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Published in: Home: OpinionBritish higher education is being destroyed. Uni workers are fighting backOPINION: Marketisation has left university staff on precarious contracts and students paying more for less
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Published in: Home: NewsPost-Brexit Turing Scheme gives students £22m less than EU’s Erasmus programmeStudents say the Turing Scheme is plagued with problems and leaves them facing uncertainty even after they begin study
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Published in: Home: NewsUniversities ‘illegally hitting disabled students with extra housing costs’Exclusive: Students told openDemocracy of receiving unfair charges for adapted rooms or for carers’ accommodation
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Published in: Home: NewsStudents fearful as accommodation giant breaks ‘bills included’ agreementWeeks before term starts, UniHomes has told some students that bills will no longer be included in rental agreements
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Published in: Home: FeatureHow the cost of living crisis is hurting studentsExclusive: As maintenance grants fail to keep pace with inflation, students on low incomes struggle to get by
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsGoldsmiths strike: Why we’re fighting the marketisation of higher educationIn recent weeks, many UK universities have seen staff walkouts in protest against pension cuts, deteriorating...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCulture wars: It’s the Right that is trying to cancel free speechWhile the powerful try to silence those who speak back to them, working-class cultures all over the world are...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsBritish universities slammed for taking £90m from oil companies in four yearsExclusive: Campaigners condemn ‘scandalous’ funding, saying it is ‘a blemish on the reputations of the UK’s leading...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionUK universities’ dangerous reliance on China is being driven by marketisationInstitutions are being forced to risk academic freedom under current funding model.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHigher education should be about love and justiceAn edited speech by openDemocracy co-founder Anthony Barnett to graduating Goldsmiths students, and accepting his...
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Published in: TransformationAre eco-versities the future for higher education?Transforming learning into a process of liberation sounds great, but what does it mean in practice?
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Published in: TransformationCan universities still provide a transformative experience?At least for the purposes of surveillance and control, the possibility of being politically awakened by higher...
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Published in: TransformationRe-imagining higher educationLearning takes place in the heart, the hands and the home, not just in the head. What does that mean for the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy we should all be alarmed about our new university 'businesses' and their enforcersAs has become clear, the universities are colluding with police and even the unions to clamp down on student protest...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIn praise of the 'economically illiterate' academic
University staff are now being drilled to see their work as part of a great financial machine to generate revenue,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK'Fair pay' at universities, as long as you're full time
'Fractional Staff' appear to be severely underpaid and neither the universities nor even the unions seem at all...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy the universities strikes are about more than just a ‘measly’ pay offer
It's not just the money, it's the direction our marketised universities are taking - enormous rewards at the top...
