25 October 2017 Wakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) was described in a damning report as an organisation run 'on the basis of fear'. Jon Trickett MP examines an education system in crisis.

5 December 2016 Sheldon Ridley spoke to students taking part in their first national demonstration.

29 November 2016 This is a massive blow to the rights of ordinary kids to have the same opportunities as their more privileged peers. Danielle Child reports.

1 June 2015 Following the recent wave of university occupations across London, Ben Wilson looks at the emerging Free University of London, a radical alternative to the current higher education model

17 October 2014 Anna Wolmuth talks to US teacher and writer Lois Weiner about what the UK can learn from global education struggles

17 October 2014 Mary Compton describes how big corporations are profiting from some of the world’s poorest schools

17 October 2014 Susan Robertson explains how the neoliberal mantra of ‘choice’, tests and privatisation is poisoning our education systems worldwide

17 October 2014 A strike by Chicago teachers shows how unions can resist the dismantling of public education. Micah Uetricht takes up the story

1 June 2014 Ken Jones says Michael Gove’s new system for testing pupils will exacerbate inequality

15 May 2014 A week of workshops, films, discussions, poetry, music, art and more, looking at the fight for social justice in the UK and around the world to take place in June

10 April 2014 Andrew Dolan looks at the problems posed by free schools

17 February 2014 University of Birmingham student Deborah Hermanns describes her experience of being arrested, released without charge and subsequently suspended from university and banned from running in the Birmingham Guild of Students elections

11 November 2013 Novara Media reports from the 3Cosas demonstration at Senate House

11 November 2013 Students and workers to mobilise on Wednesday 13th November to fight the closure of ULU

18 October 2013 Red Pepper looks at the myths surrounding academies and free schools

8 October 2013 Children’s literature can be an important playground for kids to think critically and conceive of a better world. Kitty Webster explores what’s out there for little rebels to read

1 October 2013 John Millington reports from today's teachers' walkout and rally

14 December 2012 Max Watson of London Metropolitan University’s Unison branch describes how its members helped stave off privatisation proposals at the university

28 October 2012 Donald Morrison examines what the explosive growth in academy schools means for teachers

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

8 January 2012 Melissa Benn, author of School Wars, discusses education with teacher Anna Wolmuth

22 May 2011 Student article competition winner Kit Withnail calls for others to stand with the movement

4 February 2011 Cristina Delgado Garcia and Luke Yates explain why university cuts aren’t fair or needed

16 September 2010 The struggle against a city academy in north London controlled by a group of hedge fund managers might be a sign of things to come. Hank and Jean Roberts tell the story of the campaign

5 August 2010 As Tory education secretary Michael Gove pushes through legislation to 'put the boosters' under Labour's school academies programme, Fiona Millar explains her concerns

5 July 2010 Donald Morrison says if the Tories get their way more money will be taken away from the public sector and handed over to private profiteers

29 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

14 November 2008 From school meals to school selection policies, Margaret Tulloch has been a tireless campaigner for state education for half a lifetime. She spoke to Laurie Penny

24 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

24 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

24 October 2008 In trying to push through a reform package that the Guardian has called a 'Blairite revolution', the National Union of Students' Labour leadership is putting the NUS on a path to self-destruction, says executive member Hind Hassan

24 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

13 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

1 February 2006 The education white paper and the market principles behind it are opposed by many Labour MPs. Here, one of them sets out what would be needed to win back their support.