Ian Parker reviews Andrew McGettigan’s book The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education (ISBN: 978-0-7453-3293-2), published by Pluto Press at £16.99 on 30 April The minority Conservative government propped up by Orange Book liberals keen [...]
While the agenda for National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference 2013 seemed very inward looking, the actual debates and decisions marked a significant step in committing the NUT to a fight against the politics of austerity peddled by the Tory [...]
In a press conference on Monday 18th March the two largest teacher unions announced a series of joint strikes starting on Thursday June 27th and continuing into the autumn term. The first days of strike action will be regional strikes, involving every part of [...]
After three weeks, an impressive student occupation at the University of Sussex against the privatization of services on campus is still in full-swing, even expanding, with flash occupations and disruptions of different buildings and events on campus last Friday. On [...]
This article has been sent to us by a trade union activist who, due to the climate of intimidation prevailing in the sector, has asked to remain anonymous. Policy which originated in the Higher Education (HE) White Paper is now [...]
Michael Gove, the hard right Tory ideologue Education Secretary, is doing everything he can to provoke all out war with the teaching unions but his turnaround in the E-Bacc shows he is vulnerable writes Roy Wilkes. In November, he sent a letter [...]
An activist who wants to be known as TP writes about ‘bullying’ at MMU, and the background to Ian Parker’s resignation. An automated reply from Ian Parker in December following the success of the campaign against his suspension from Manchester [...]
Roy Wilkes is NUT school rep and argues that Michael Gove is doing everything he can to provoke all out war with the teaching unions. Michael Gove is doing everything he can to provoke all out war with the teaching unions. [...]
An activist who wants to be known as TP has sent us another article on the new management culture now prevailing in higher education. The recent events unfolding at Manchester Metropolitan University – victimisation of trade union activists, autonomous and [...]
We have been sent this report by an activist who wishes to be known only as TP. The reasons for this are apparent from what follows. A significant victory has been won by a campaign against management victimisation of trade [...]
In this interview with the Turkish radical paper soL (Left) Dave Hill explains how neoliberalism is impacting on education in the British state and surveys the European political situation Dave hill interviewed by Derya ünlü, for the Left Turkish daily newspaper, [...]
London Met UCU, London Met Unison, and London Met SU have called a London-wide mobilisation and march from ULU (Malet Street) to the Home Office (Marsham Street, Victoria) for Friday 28th Sept. Assembling at Malet Street for 1pm. Under the [...]
Everyone agrees. Education, like all the public sector, is facing an unprecedented attack. The Tory led Coalition Government is seeking to reverse all the gains made by the public education service since the 1950’s. We are witnessing the demise of [...]
by Dave Hill[i] This is a potentially revolutionary period in world history. The collapse of finance capitalism, the bankers’ bailouts across the globe, the continuing bankers’ bonuses, and the intrinsic problems of finance capitalism (such as overproduction and under-consumption, caused [...]
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