Students

Students are still in the front line – but it’s time that changed March 2012
Kit Withnail calls for the rest of us to join the students' resistance

The students’ moment February 2012
Student activist Michael Chessum reflects on the state of the fight against the Tories’ education reforms

Higher education: the lie-busting low-down February 2011
Cristina Delgado Garcia and Luke Yates explain why university cuts aren’t fair or needed

Trouble at the sausage factory May 2010
Leeds students Andre Pusey and Leon Sealey-Huggins report on the fight against higher education cuts and its connection to the wider battle against the current neoliberal role and form of universities

Beyond town and gown October 2008
The relationship between students and locals is fraught with long-held mistrust and resentment. Ex-student Jenny Nelson looks at the colourful history of these often segregated communities, and meets some of the student activists who are trying to break out of the ghettos they've inherited

Students are citizens too October 2008
With 'top-up' fees and increasing debt leaving many students less willing to fight for anyone but themselves, London School of Economics union president Aled Fisher argues for more, not less, participation in wider politics

Back to class October 2008
The falling value and rising price of a degree is hitting some harder than others. Laurie Penny looks at what's left of the egalitarian dream of universally accessible education

Death of the intellectual October 2008
The ambition of advanced capitalism is not simply to combat radical ideas - it is to abolish the very notion that there could be a serious alternative to the present. Terry Eagleton laments the passing of a critical age