Tag: warwick

Occupy, Strike, Resist: 3 Lessons from the Warwick Occupation
Following a two-week occupation, Warwick students have won major concessions on their demands that the university oppose government higher education reforms, agree to fair teaching conditions for hourly-paid academic staff, and scrap a protest injunction.
6 Things Warwick University’s New Temp Agency Tells Us About Academic Precarity
Warwick University has announced plans to employ all casual staff through an internal temp agency. Anti-casualisation campaigners have targeted the move as an insidious form of outsourcing which threatens the whole sector.
4 Things I Learnt from Arguing with University Management
Provoked by the outcry over a police attack on a student sit-in last December, the Centre for Human Rights in Practice at the University of Warwick held a 'protest summit'. Free education activists and university bosses were invited onto the panel, making for a revealing - and sometimes heated - exchange of views.
On the #SussexFive and Celebrating our Victories
When the University of Sussex indefinitely suspended five students in 2013 for taking part in an occupation of its conference centre, the public backlash could not have been predicted. This week the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education ruled that the university had been wrong, forcing it to compensate the students and formally apologise.
“WTF is happening?!” – Warwick, the police and the new student movement
Scenes of CS spray and a Taser being pulled on a British university campus have shocked thousands, but if the new student movement is to dig its heels in, it can expect more where that came from, writes Craig McVegas.