The International Students for Social Equality suggests that the government’s encouragement of “marketisation” in higher education has led to rising student debt and reductions in teaching quality.

The National Union of Students is preparing to transform itself into a think-tank, effectively abandoning its role as a campaigning organisation and significantly reducing the influence of students on union policy, writes Yuri Prasad.

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