PRESUMED KNOWLEDGE AND IMPOSTER SYNDROME IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academia, accessibility, art, books, class, class privilege, cultural capital, cultural hegemony, curriculum, exclusion, featured, high culture, higher education, imposter syndrome, marginalisation, middle class, middle class students, museums, privilege, students, UEA, university, University Challenge, working class, working class students.

By Kasper Hassett

Last week, as I walked past my housemate’s room, I overheard her in an online meeting with her dissertation supervisor. ‘My uncle’s a lecturer in the same topic,’ she said, ‘so he can help me with that.’ At the time, I marvelled at how convenient that must be. But then, I started to think about how frequently I see this: middle class students aided by family or family friends in their studies, often receiving a great deal of support and extra resources. Are there any instances, I wondered, where I as a working class student have benefitted educationally from family connections?

SHELTERED, BUT NOT FROM MUCH: CLASS-BASED BARRIERS TO STUDENT HOUSING

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged acorn, campaign, Community, coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, featured, guarantor, house, housing, international students, landlord, norwich, private accommodation, rent, social status, students, UEA, UEA SU, uk, university, University of East Anglia, working class.

by Kasper Hassett

This month, many returning university students are settling into house-shares in the private rental sector, as the first-year intake prepares to move into halls of residence shortly after. However, for students whose families live in poverty, there are a number of barriers to accessing rental homes, which have worsened this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has also constructed new obstacles to prevent poorer students from relying on campus accommodation.

BLAME GAME: A GOVERNMENT SCARED OF YOUNG PEOPLE

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged blame, BLM, Boris Johnson, covid, covid19, dominic cummings, eid, exams, featured, government guidlines, movement, NHS, protest, scapegoat, student, uk, young people, youth.

by Howard Green

Since Monday, people living in England are no longer allowed to meet in groups of more than six. Although this is not hugely practical given that many employees and students are being required to return to work and study, these new restrictions show that our incompetent Government is prepared to occasionally act in service of public health rather than into the hands of the free market. But it’s very apparent that these restrictions are aimed at minimising social gatherings amongst young people, who have unjustly been the subject of blame for the recent upsurge in COVID-19 cases.

TO DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS, UEA MUST DIVEST FROM BARCLAYS

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Barclays, BP, careers events, climate change, climate emergency, Divest Barclays, divestment, education, employment, energy, engineering, ethical investment, featured, fossil free, Fossil Free UEA, fossil fuels, graduates, higher education, Loughborough University, media, norwich, oil, people and planet, Portsmouth University, recruitment, Shell, student activism, students, students' unions, UEA, universities, zero carbon.

By Henry Webb

Higher Education institutions have the power to decide whether the fossil fuel industry lives or dies. The dominant players in the energy sector may seem unstoppable. After all, as long as the oil keeps flowing, they’ll find someone to buy it. Their lobbyists will make sure of that. But these behemoths require resources beyond those of just the raw coal, oil, and gas that we are so dependent on – they need capital. Without investment banks to finance everything from pipelines to offshore rigs, the costly infrastructure needed for fossil fuel extraction just wouldn’t exist.

LAST PICKINGS AND LOST GRADES FOR BTEC STUDENTS

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A-levels, assessment, BTEC, class, classism, contextual offers, coronavirus, education, elitism, exam boards, exams, featured, GCSEs, grade moderation, Grenfell tower, Hampton Common, higher education, Highers, london, POLAR4, postcode lottery, Predicted grades, regional bias, school, Scotland, SEN, stereotyping, UCAS, working class.

by Kasper Hassett

After the government’s U-turn on GCSE and A-level moderation, widespread celebration has broken out among student and teaching communities alike. But, drowned out by the cheering, a yet unsolved problem remains: the injustice and uncertainty for those taking BTECs, who have been left behind in the race to secure places at chosen further and higher education institutions.

PREDICTED GRADES – THE POSTCODE LOTTERY

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A-levels, assessment, class, contextual offers, coronavirus, education, elitism, exam boards, exams, featured, free school meals, GCSEs, grade moderation, Grenfell tower, Hampton Common, higher education, Highers, Kensington, london, POLAR4, postcode lottery, Predicted grades, regional bias, school, Scotland, SEN, stereotyping, UCAS, working class.

By Kasper Hassett

Last week, young people across Scotland reached the end of years of schooling and were presented with their final grades. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, these results were based not on a summer exam series, but on predicted grades from teachers and subsequent moderation by examining bodies. As many as a quarter of grades were lowered, hitting working-class pupils in poorer regions and schools the hardest. Further south, A level and GCSE students are still awaiting similarly-calculated results, due for release on the 13th and 20th of August respectively. But, with individual pupils’ futures at the mercy of wildly varying school averages, the most disadvantaged students are facing even more barriers to higher education.

EDUCATION AFTER THE PANDEMIC: REFORM AND RENATIONALISATION

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A-Level, assessment, BBC Bitesize, coronavirus, Covid-19, data, digital technology, education, entertainment, exams, featured, GCSE, higher education, internet, jeremy corbyn, Labour, Lenin, lockdown, mental health, National Education Service, NHS, online counselling, online education, pandemic, policy, politics, primary education, privatisation, schools, secondary education, student mental health, teachers assessment, tony blair, Youtube, zoom.

By Howard Green

Tony Blair, upon his election into government in 1997, famously declared that his top three priorities were “Education, education and education”. At the other end of the century, Vladimir Lenin proclaimed that education that didn’t teach about life and politics was indeed a “hypocrisy”. Education has been a central focus of politics for over a hundred years, and today is no different. As the Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted conventional ways of learning for many, the modern British educational system needs short term and long term reform if it is to adapt to the issues of the 21st century. With the advent of Zoom lessons and online assessments, now is the time to explore the full potential of digital technology as the new frontier of education.

ONLINE LEARNING, COVID AND CLASSISM

Posted on June 15, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged class, coronavirus, Covid-19, education, employability, featured, higher education, mental health, online learning, privilege, stress, student finance, student life, university, working class, working class students.

By Kasper Hassett

Although UK universities boast that their online teaching provision is adequate to the current crisis, deep-rooted inequalities in the class system cause the poorest students to suffer the most. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, working-class students are faced with more challenges than usual, and are also less able to access online teaching than their middle- and upper-class peers. Despite their disproportionate struggle to engage with remote teaching, universities are refusing to show leniency with deferrals and adjustments, feigning blindness to a violently unjust class system. The response of universities to this pandemic is insufficient at best, and places those students facing hardship at an even further disadvantage.

WHAT NEXT FOR NORWICH’S YOUNG CLIMATE PROTESTERS?

Posted on May 30, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community, Student and tagged activism, air pollution, Broadland Northway, climate activism, climate change, coastal erosion, Coranavirus, Covid-19, education, featured, norfolk, northern distributor road, norwich, pandemic, politics, protest, school closures, schools, social media, young people, youth climate strikes.

By Howard Green

Since 2018, cities across the globe have had many of their Fridays dominated by the vibrancy and passion of youth climate protesters. It’s a testament to the radical attitudes of Norwich’s young population that such large crowds have flocked to the city centre to protest against the current climate regime. Sadly, the Coronavirus pandemic has dried up physical activism in the city for the time being. There is a serious risk that this pandemic may lead to the voices of young people, especially those in secondary school and sixth form, being silenced within Norfolk and across the country. We must diagnose the problem if we are to move forward and continue on in protest.

THE NORWICH RADICAL IN 2019

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community, Inter|national, Perspectives, Student and tagged 2019, 2020, antigypsyism, archive, arts, debate, editorial, election, featured, fight, ge2019, gypsy, immigration, mental health, new year, open letter, police violence, politics, populism, recruit, resist, review, state violence, student media, transgender, UEA, War of Words, year.

by Alex Valente

2019 is drawing to a close, but the turmoil and trauma of this turbulent year show no signs of abating. As we wrote on the cold, miserable and particularly unfortunate morning of Friday the 13th,

in the coming months and years, many in this country and elsewhere will suffer under a Tory government led by a racist liar. Social services will be dismembered. Workers’ rights will be eroded. Vulnerable people will face violence at the hands of increasingly aggressive immigration authorities and police. All of which will be sanctioned, incited, and protected by the country’s highest authorities and institutions.

The turn of a decade is an important time to review, to remember what the good fight is actually about, and what type of work is expected from us, as people, as a community, as a society.Continue Reading

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PRESUMED KNOWLEDGE AND IMPOSTER SYNDROME IN HIGHER EDUCATION

By Kasper Hassett

BLAME GAME: A GOVERNMENT SCARED OF YOUNG PEOPLE

by Howard Green

TO DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS, UEA MUST DIVEST FROM BARCLAYS

By Henry Webb

LAST PICKINGS AND LOST GRADES FOR BTEC STUDENTS

by Kasper Hassett

PREDICTED GRADES – THE POSTCODE LOTTERY

By Kasper Hassett

EDUCATION AFTER THE PANDEMIC: REFORM AND RENATIONALISATION

ONLINE LEARNING, COVID AND CLASSISM

THE NORWICH RADICAL IN 2019

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