Younger people are being pushed into political activity because of the horrors of capitalism. From the Youth Strike 4 Climate movement to the current A Level fiasco, we are seeing crisis after crisis for school students. Young people are suffering under the pressure of capitalist life. The system cannot offer anything to these young people. Read more about what has been happening to school students, and fight back with us!
“We can’t let them take our future away! We can’t be pawns for their political ideas!” These were the words of a fourteen-year-old girl to a crowd of hundreds of parents, teachers and school students who gathered in Mile End park yesterday afternoon, to rally against education cuts in the Read more…
Capitalism has decimated the FE sector, rapidly transforming a public service into a profit-spinning enterprise. An employee from an unnamed Further Education consultancy explains how this has been allowed to take place. Over the last 25 years, further education in England has undergone a rapid process of commercialisation. Whilst Read more…
Last week Jeremy Corbyn unveiled Labour’s new pledge to provide free school meals for all primary school students in the UK, to be funded by additional VAT on private education fees, amounting to £1bn. Referencing several recent studies by the National Centre for Social Research and the Institute for Fiscal Read more…
The whole world is in the mist of turbulent convulsions. Capitalism as a system has exhausted itself and the capitalist politicians, academics and strategists have no solution to the problems faced by young people today. The case for international socialist revolution has never been clearer. In one country after another Read more…
Nowadays people assume that students are unaware of what is going on outside their houses, but that is not the case and has not been the case. If we look at one of the biggest demonstrations in Liverpool in 1985, we can see that 30,000 students skipped their classes and Read more…
It becomes increasingly clear that capitalism is not and never will provide a future for young people today. Many young people find themselves bearing the brunt of attacks from the ruling class on the rights of workers and their families. People aged 16 – 24 are three times more 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…
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…
Though there had been hints for a while, I first found out for certain that my college was gathering information on me because one of my teachers told me so: he kept me after class to ask what he should write in my ‘Prevent’ file. That was around February this Read more…
Since the Easter holidays 7,000 children have been denied their education due to the discovery that 10 primary, 5 secondary and 2 additional support schools, built on a PFI scheme are unsafe for the children and young people to be in. Not only has this left children and teenagers at Read more…
In today’s (16 March) budget George Osborne has promised that all schools in England will become independent of local authority control by 2022. This is an extension of the academy system, which has already been introduced in 2,075 out of 3,381 secondary schools and 2,440 of 16,766 primary schools in England. Academies Read more…
According to reports from teachers in Wales, a generation of children and teenagers are being forced to learn in ‘deplorable conditions’. This demonstrates the real life effects of cuts to education and school building programs since 2010 in the UK. While the Welsh government claims that it will invest up Read more…
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