Students
Locked out during lockdown
1 December 2020 Already dealing with the effects of the hostile environment in education, Sanaz Raji explains the new challenges facing international students during the pandemic
A thousand more Millbanks
14 November 2020 Ten years after students raged at the Conservative Party HQ, protester Tanzil Chowdhury explains why he has no regrets – just hope for the future
Five ways to say Fck Boris
22 November 2019 Boris Johnson wants to be Prime Minister for the next five years. Maddie Hennessy of Fck Boris Sheffield lists five things you can do to stop that happening.
Scrapping grants will inspire another wave of student protests – how can they win?
3 August 2015 Student funding changes will hit the poor hardest and transfer wealth upwards. Kate Bradley looks to campaigns around the world for lessons of successful resistance
Arrested, suspended, then banned from elections: my student experience, by Deborah Hermanns
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
Campus campaigning: student activism goes local
1 October 2013 The flames of the 2010/11 student movement haven’t been entirely extinguished. Hattie Craig and Roz Burgin examine the new look of campus-based resistance
Homes of our own: the growing student co-operative movement
15 September 2013 Sean Farmelo is part of a group of Birmingham students involved in setting up a new student housing co-op
Students are still in the front line – but it’s time that changed
10 March 2012 Kit Withnail calls for the rest of us to join the students' resistance
The students’ moment
22 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
4 February 2011 Cristina Delgado Garcia and Luke Yates explain why university cuts aren’t fair or needed
Trouble at the sausage factory
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
Beyond town and gown
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
Students are citizens too
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
Back to class
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
Death of the intellectual
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
