Tag: education

5 Reasons We Should Abolish Oxbridge
Every year, another educational access report prompts outrage at how over-represented private schools are at Oxford and Cambridge. But amidst these ritual furores, the existence of these elite universities is never called into question. Angus Satow lays out five reasons we should abolish Oxbridge altogether.
A ‘Neu’ Union?
On 15 November, members of the National Education Union teaching in state-funded schools and sixth form colleges launched a ballot on the issues of teacher pay and school funding. The hope is that this will be the first step towards nation-wide strike action.
Support the UCU Strike

Today was the first of fourteen days of strike action by the University and Colleges Union (UCU) over proposed 40% cuts to the USS pensions scheme. 61 campuses are taking part in the largest strike action in UK Higher education history. Callum Cant went to the picket lines to find out more.

4 Things to Remember About the Toby Young Scandal
Far from just being a creep who was somehow appointed to direct the new Office for Students, Toby Young has spent years shaping himself as an educationalist of sorts. Today he resigned - here are the takeaways from the slow-burn car crash.
6 Ways Monetisation Is Destroying Universities From the Inside Out
Universities run like businesses. Students treated like consumers. Here's how higher education in the UK is being changed for the worse.
4 Reasons the Tories Have Been Bad for Education
Education! Education! Education! Education! Teacher Danny Rees explains why a vote for the Tories is a vote against learning.
Enough is Enough: UCL Climate Activists Escalate Their Fight for Divestment
With over a quarter of UK universities having divested from fossil fuels, UCL activists vow to make their university finally go green.
HE Reforms Have Been Rocked, but the Student Movement Must Keep Pressure On
This week the House of Lords passed an amendment to the HE Reform Bill, uncoupling the link between the 'Teaching Excellence Framework' and fresh fee hikes. Yet it's no time for the student movement to rest on its laurels, argues Ana Oppenheim.
Open Letter: The Government’s Education Policies are Attacking BME and Migrant Students
The home secretary has pledged to reduce the number of non-EU international students enrolled at British universities from 300,000 to 170,000, representing a further attack on migrant and BME students.
Department for Education Emails Reveal a Crisis in Children’s Mental Health Policy
In May the mental health for schools champion was fired for criticising government policy, suggesting the Tories are more concerned with PR than children's mental wellbeing.
Education Not Segregation: A Serious Strategy for Educational Reform for the Labour Party
Angela Rayner’s speech at the Labour party conference indicated the possibilities for a radical alternative for education, but what would a long-term strategy look like?
4 Reasons to Resist the New Immigration Duty in the School Census
Schools are now being used to investigate 'education tourism' as part of the government's campaign to create a hostile environment for migrants. Against Borders for Children believes we can work together to resist the plans.
What are: Grammar Schools?
Novara Explainers: the effects of grammar schools.
If Teach First Wants to Solve Inequality, It Should Reconsider Its Corporate Bedfellows
What links Goldman Sachs and an inner-city school serving a low-income community? The answer is troubling one.
Tory School Reforms Are Making Teachers and Students Suffer
Michael Gove and Nicky Morgan might have has their hall passes revoked in Theresa May's cabinet reshuffle, but the legacy of their education reforms lives on in our schools.
5 Reasons Teachers are Going on Strike
Teachers across England are going on strike tomorrow. But during what seems like a golden age for teaching standards, why is industrial action necessary?
2 Steps Towards the Socialisation of the UCU Strike
Yesterday members of the University and College Union finished a 48 hour strike. Officially the dispute is over pay, but if staff and students want to take on the central issue - the marketisation of the sector - it will require some innovation.
4 Ideas for the Comprehensive University
On Wednesday thousands of students will demonstrate in support of free education. But if the possibility of a properly free, liberated education is limited by the structure of existing HE institutions, what would the alternative look like?