The Paper’s mailbox was full this month with letters, comments and questions from friends and foe. So don’t be shy and keep ‘em coming. I freelance for the Evening Standard. Simple question – is it not irresponsible to give thousands of cash-strapped students a detailed step-by-step guide to shoplifting in a newspaper part-funded by the […]
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ESOL is under threat
English for Speakers of Other Languages(ESOL) ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) provision now faces its biggest attack yet. Eligibility changes proposed by the government will mean that in many places around 70 per cent of students will no longer be eligible for funded courses. Under the government strategy on skills, the only people […]
Editorial Edition Zero
The people who disobey. The people who resist in the obscurity of everyday life. The people who, when forgotten too long, remind the world of their existence and break into history without prior notice… There is no oppression without resistance. There is only time stretching more or less slowly before unexpected—or out of sight—the collective […]
DeSchool, D-Skool, Really Really Free school
The Really Free School, a place to share knowledge Surrounded by institutions and universities, there is newly occupied space where education can be re-imagined. Amidst rising fees and mounting pressure for ‘success’, we value knowledge in a different currency: one that everyone can afford to trade. In this Really Free School, skills are swapped and […]
Demonstration and Diversions
Our reporter in Manchester counts the good eggs and the bad TUC Demonstration Against the Cuts The follow up to the TUC/ Students Against the Cuts demonstration in Manchester on 29 January has been a media led storm about the supposed chanting of ‘Tory Jew’ at Aaron Porter, NUS President. The Daily Mail, that bastion of […]
Dangerous Alliances: Class and the Student Movement
Federico Campagna – Student Movement Recently, I have been asked several times by Italian friends and comrades to talk about the British student movement. I must confess that their questions always made me feel slightly embarrassed. At first, I tried to forget about this uncomfortable feeling, talking about the rise of a new civic participation, […]
A Retreat to Be Sure, But a Retreat to the Only Possible Victory
Protesters, Tahrir Square | Hossam el-Hamalawy EDDIE MOLLOY Education Retreat What were the features of those heady days back in November and December when it seemed that 16 year olds were making the government shake and a new movement was in the pangs of birth? What excited us so as missiles were hurled and cavalry […]
A day I will never forget
I will never forget | Anonymous That Friday in January 2011 will be a day that my six workmates and I will never forget. At 10 a.m. UK border agents entered our workplace saying that they had received a report about people working illegally there. For my mates and I it was a crushing blow […]