NUS: managing apathy?

With student debt spiralling and higher education being reduced to a commodity, Laurie Penny calls for a change of course

Tim Street in a UK Watch exclusive on the increasing militarisation of British universities, which has seen world-class institutions selling their expertise to improve Britain’s warmaking capabilities, and the growing movement to oppose this.

New Labour’s latest plan to improve education misses the elephant in the room by failing to address the unequal and fiercely competitive society that has had such a disastrous impact upon Britain’s children, writes the IWCA.