• Primary School League Tables: 1000 Failing Schools
    30th December 2010

    With the publication of this month’s primary schools league tables, still more questions are being raised about the handling of education at all levels by the coalition government. Fresh on the heels of the tuition fees row and the furore over higher education, new concerns have been voiced about the government’s failure to support the poorerst and most underpriveleged pupils at all stages of their education.

  • Is Oxbridge Just For Rich Kids?
    27th December 2010

    A startling report this week revealed that a mere 0.8% of Oxbridge students come from disadvantaged backgrounds, making them 55 times less likely to get in to Oxford or Cambridge University than private school pupils. We ask whether the government’s plans for a huge increase in tuition fees, along with their contraversial decision to axe the Aim Higher university access scheme, will result in an Oxbridge education truly being accessible only to the most rich and priveleged students.

  • University funding cut by £400 million
    20th December 2010

    Fresh on the heels of its controversial policy to raise university tuition fees in England to £9000, the government has now announced cuts of £400 million to university teaching budgets. These cuts will take effect long before the rise in tuition fees comes into force, leaving universities desperately struggling to make ends meet and striking a further blow to students and higher education.

  • Police Violence at Tuition Fees Protests
    17th December 2010

    Following the outbreak of violence at the recent tuition fees protests, questions have been raised about the level and necessity of violence used by the Metropolitan Police force against students. Whilst heavy-handed resistance is understandable in the case of the very small number of protesters acting violently themselves, disturbing accounts have come to light describing the brutal treatement of innocent bystanders and peaceful student protesters as well.

  • Tuition Fees: Top UK Universities at Risk
    14th December 2010

    A study released by the lecturers’ union has shown the devastating predicted impact of the government funding cuts and rise in tuition fees on some of the top UK Universities. The worst hit will be those offering innovative and cutting-edge arts and culturally creative courses and, most worrying of all, those offering the greatest number of places to students from disadvataged backgrounds. A third of UK Universities have been labelled “at risk”.

  • Tuition Fees Vote Results: The End for Nick Clegg?
    10th December 2010

    As the House of Commons narrowly voted to support the coalition government’s plans to raise university tuition fees in England to £9000, a huge rebellion by members of the Liberal Democrat party signalled deep rifts and disarray. They may have won the vote, but at what political cost to the party’s future, and at what personal price for Nick Clegg?

  • Tuition Fee Vote Scheduled
    07th December 2010

    As the day of the Parliamentary vote on tuition fees draws near, we recap the major points of the debate on fees, from the government’s plans to raise university fees to £9000 and scrap state education funding, to the staunch opposition organised by the National Union of Students and their president Aaron Porter. What will be the outcome of the vote on tuition fees?

  • Not a Clegg to Stand On
    02nd December 2010

    With the publication of this week’s Million+ report claiming that 65% of students will be worse off under the government’s proposals for raised tuition fees, Nick Clegg has lost his last vestiges of support. The student population, the general public, and even his own party have been left angry and disillusioned, but it is his own supercilious and condescending attitude towards the protesters that has truly left Nick Clegg standing very much alone.