I’ve just returned from the picket at King’s College London where we had a very respectable turnout of ten striking staff. The next step in our strike schedule after the two-day national strike was for branches to select one day of action in June/July. I voted in favour of co-ordinating Read more…
This week is seeing staff at 44 universities across the UK go on strike as part of their campaign for a decent pay increase, an end to zero-hour contracts and a closing of the gender pay gap. Already the University of the Arts London, the University of West London and Read more…
Students at Queen Mary’s College in Basingstoke are furious about an Edexcel Biology A Level exam. Edexcel exams are set by the largest education multinational company in the world: Pearson PLC. The exam had almost nothing to do with the course that has been taught this year. In fact, according to Read more…
Today Marxist students have been out supporting UCU members on strike as part of the ongoing pay dispute. Ross, a UCU member from Queen Margaret University (QMU) who was on strike today has sent in the following report: There were about 12 of us on the picket line. The university Read more…
Three days ago, six people were killed and dozens wounded outside Oaxaca when the Mexican police opened fire on unarmed protestors defending state education: http://www.marxist.com/mexico-brutal-repression-of-teachers… This is another chapter in the story of the Mexican state’s assault on workers through violent repression of unionists and a brutal swathe of privatizations, Read more…
A petition opposing the retrospective alteration to student loan repayments, begun by Durham University student Alex True, has been rejected by parliament. Having gathered over 120,000 signatures in the space of a few days, it demonstrates the strength of feeling against tuition fees and this latest modification. Nonetheless, it will Read more…
The dispute over pay between universities and the UCU continues today with a strike at the University of Sussex. While staff pay has fallen by 14.5% since 2009, the vice-chancellor at Sussex has a salary of £287,000. Throughout the HE sector 49% of staff are on insecure contracts and Read more…
Below we publish a report of a meeting that took place at London Metropolitan University last week: The mood was one of anger and determination to fight on Tuesday 7 June, when more than 40 people gathered to plan the fightback against the job cuts and victimisation of trade unionists Read more…
On Sunday 5 June, Momentum Youth and Students held its founding conference. The mood was very positive thanks in part to the large attendance of almost 200 young people, but mainly due to the fact that there was a real sense of the tide having turned. Socialism is now back on Read more…
Following the announcement by the Vice-Chancellor of London Metropolitan University (LMU) that there are to be almost 400 more job cuts, staff are organising a fightback with an initial public meeting tonight (7 June 2016). The university has suffered a huge reduction in size over the past few years. Read more…
City of Bristol College, rated “inadequate” by Ofsted earlier this year, has been revealed to have lost students’ work thereby costing them their qualifications. Formal complaints have been made about an animal management course first offered in 2011 which was originally supposed to last six-weeks, until the college realised Read more…
The pace of privatisation in education is accelerating and those who would use it as a means to get rich quick are circling ever closer. The recent White Paper published by the government would allow universities to increase tuition fees above £9,000 in line with inflation from Autumn 2017. At Read more…
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