BATS, BIKES AND BETRAYALS – THE FIGHT TO STOP THE WENSUM LINK

Posted on June 20, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged Barbastelle bats, conservation, conservatives, david richardson, environment, featured, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Norfolk County Council, norwich, Norwich City Council, Norwich Cycling Project, Norwich Western Link, roads, UEA, Wensum Link.

By Sophie Ciurlik-Rittenbaum

The Norwich Western Link, also known as the Wensum Link, is a proposed road that cuts through the Wensum River Valley. It would cut through a Site of Special Scientific Interest destroying critical habitat, most notably inhabited by one of the only colonies of endangered Barbastelle bats. The project is already over budget, and according to Stop The Wensum Link, may cost up to £300 million. The Conservative-controlled Norfolk County Council is responsible for the Link and is pushing for its construction, whereas the Labour-controlled Norwich City Council has announced its opposition to the link.

STUDENTS STRIKE FOR RENT REDUCTION

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community, Student and tagged Boris Johnson, clive lewis, coronavirus, Covid-19, david richardson, featured, higher education, keir starmer, marketisation, rent strike, Rent Strike UEA, student accommodation, student activism, student rent strikes, tuition fees, UEA, UEA Marxist Society, UEA SU, university, University of East Anglia, zoom.

By Sean Meleady

With the announcement on 4 January of a third national lockdown, the majority of students at the UEA have been unable to return to the University following the end of the Christmas holidays. However, a campaign was set up several days before the lockdown announcement by a group of students calling for a rent strike at UEA.

A KINDER KIND OF POWER: WORDS FROM THE UEA PICKET LINE

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Community, Student and tagged #UCUStrikesBack, BME pay gap, casualisation, corruption, david richardson, featured, gender pay gap, inequality, international students, Neil Ward, overworking, pensions, picket lines, power, precarity, protest, redundancy, solidarity, strike, strike action, students, UCU, UCU strike, UEA, UEA SU, UEA UCU, universities, university staff, USS, UUK, VC salaries, visas, wages, workers rights, working conditions.

By Rowan Gavin

We are the morning greeting. We are cold boots on colder ground. We are the smiles in the winter sunshine. We are the chants and the songs and the stiff-limbed dances. We are the fascinator of freedom, the little red coat of resistance and packet line soylidarity. We are the educators, learning in a new classroom. We are the outrage, and the laughter. We are here to fight the power. We are power.

#NOTENOUGH – UEA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #NotEnough, Ayeshah Lalloo, counselling, david richardson, featured, Jess Fairweather, Jonathan Walker, mental health, Nick Sadler, norwich, solidarity, Sophie Smith, stress, Student Support Services, student welfare, students, suicide, Theo Brennan Hulme, UEA, UEA SU, universities, WeWillBeHeard, young people.

By Jess O’Dwyer

Content warning: mentions suicide

Going to university is a challenging time. For many it is their first time away from home with full independence. New students are presented with countless opportunities and choices, many of which will shape and change them as people. For people with mental health issues, however, this challenge is often exacerbated.

THE DOUBLE DECEPTION OF THE UEA EXPENSES SCANDAL

Posted on November 24, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged corruption, david richardson, expenses, expenses scandal, fair pay, featured, lecturers, norwich, pensions, strike action, students, tuition fees, UCU strike, UEA, university management, university vice chancellors, wages, Wood Hall.

By Robyn Banks

This week it was revealed that the senior management team at UEA has been claiming ludicrous expenses whilst on business trips across the world. Some of these claims have included limousine rides through Hong Kong, first class train and plane tickets, five star hotels and meals costing as much as £640. This attitude to spending university money is absurd and distasteful, but it is not surprising. It is a predictable result of the changes that UK higher education has undergone over the past eight years.

EDUCATION AS EMANCIPATION – BEYOND TUITION FEES #7

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Beyond Tuition Fees, capital, capitalism, commodification, corbyn, cultural capital, david richardson, degrees, dissent, economy, education, featured, Free Education, government, HEFCE, higher education, Labour, labour market, marketisation, nationalisation, office for students, pedagogy, policy, professional classes, public ownership, research, society, state funding, student experience, student satisfaction, students, teaching, tuition fees, UEA, uk, UKRI, universities, university staff, workers.

By Michael Kyriacou

It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s political project. But what will the implications for universities be if this comes to pass? And what can we do to leverage this progress? In this series, the Norwich Radical and Bright Green are bringing together perspectives from across the sector to explore these questions.

The traditional arguments for ‘free education’ focus on reducing the upfront price of university courses to zero. Rather than HE being a commodity to be traded on the open market, it becomes a good paid for by the government. This kind of argument rests on a contradiction: we cannot solve the commodification of HE by continuing to assert the existence of HE as commodity, even a nationalised one. Abolishing tuition fees is undoubtedly a good thing, but to move beyond their legacy we must understand HE as devoid not only of its price but also its status as a commodity. We need to explore the potential for HE grounded not in classification or institution but in the fundamental equality of intelligences – HE without the degree.

AN OPEN LETTER TO VICE CHANCELLOR DAVID RICHARDSON AND THE UEA EXECUTIVE

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academics, david richardson, featured, norwich, open letter, pensions, research, retirement, staff, strike action, students, students' union, trade union, UCU, UEA, UEA executive, UEASU, Union of UEA Students, university, University and College Union, University of East Anglia, USS, UUEAS, UUK, vice chancellor.

We the undersigned are writing to complain about the mistreatment of the university’s staff, and the fact that their mistreatment has led to such a major impact on our education. We wholeheartedly believe that the staff are the greatest asset to the university. The fact that they have been forced to take strike action shines a harsh light on the lack of care UEA’s executive and you, our Vice Chancellor, have for university staff.Continue Reading

UEA: FOSSIL FREE AT LAST

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged BHP Billington, BP, campaigning, carbon emissions, climate change, david richardson, direct action, divestment, fossil free, Fossil Free UEA, fossil fuels, Free Education, global warming, news, NUS, occupation, people and planet, People and Planet UEA, Rio Tinto, Royal Dutch Shell, students, UEA.

by Robyn Banks, on behalf of Fossil Free UEA

I can’t quite believe I’m writing this, but after 4 long years of campaigning, UEA has finally divested from fossil fuels. People and Planet UEA received the following statement from the University yesterday:

“Over the past 50 years UEA’s researchers have played a leading role globally in developing the science and understanding of climate change and links with carbon emissions. The University remains committed to reducing its own carbon emissions and is investing £6.5million to reduce our carbon footprint from 23,000 tonnes to 12,800 tonnes by 2020. We can confirm that UEA does not have any investments in fossil fuel companies.”*

ELITISM REFUSES TO DIE – THE UNIVERSITY FUNDING PROBLEM

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged arts, charity research funding, community colleges, Connecticut, Connecticut University System, conservatives, course closures, cuts, david richardson, education, elitism, employability, fossil free, Fossil Free UEA, fossil fuel divestment, fossil fuels, Freddie DeBoer, government, higher education, higher education funding, humanities, inequality, Ivy League, marketisation, mental health, mental health services, pay inequality, people and planet, public funding, rent hikes, russell group, STEM, student accommodation, student activism, Student Support Services, tuition fees, UEA, uk, UK Funding Councils, UK Research Councils, university management, USA, wages, Yale.

by Robyn Banks

Last month, Freddie DeBoer wrote about the failure of the university system in the United States to equally fund different institutions across the country. Looking specifically at Connecticut, DeBoer shows how Yale, one of the prestigious Ivy League universities, fuels social inequality by receiving public funds as well as other sources for revenue whilst other, more accessible community colleges are “cut to the bone”.

“WE FEEL DEMONISED” – UEA TO CLOSE MUSLIM PRAYER SPACE

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives, Student and tagged #SaveOurSpace, anti-Islamic, david richardson, demonstration, discrimination, disrespect, faith, hate crime, human rights, Islam, Muslim, Muslim students, petition, places of worship, prayer, protest, religion, religious rights, service closures, student activism, student life, student rights, students, UEA, UEA Islamic Society.

by UEA Islamic Society

On Wednesday, a group of Muslim students at UEA, including committee members of UEA Islamic Society, found out that the university is intending to close one the Muslim prayer spaces on campus this Sunday. UEA didn’t tell them – they only heard about it by chance. There has been no consultation with Muslim students. As they start a campaign to call out UEA for this unacceptable, dismissive action, we spoke to ISoc members and other involved students about the importance of the spaces and their reactions to the news.

david richardson

BATS, BIKES AND BETRAYALS – THE FIGHT TO STOP THE WENSUM LINK

By Sophie Ciurlik-Rittenbaum

STUDENTS STRIKE FOR RENT REDUCTION

By Sean Meleady

A KINDER KIND OF POWER: WORDS FROM THE UEA PICKET LINE

#NOTENOUGH – UEA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS

THE DOUBLE DECEPTION OF THE UEA EXPENSES SCANDAL

EDUCATION AS EMANCIPATION – BEYOND TUITION FEES #7

AN OPEN LETTER TO VICE CHANCELLOR DAVID RICHARDSON AND THE UEA EXECUTIVE

UEA: FOSSIL FREE AT LAST

ELITISM REFUSES TO DIE – THE UNIVERSITY FUNDING PROBLEM

“WE FEEL DEMONISED” – UEA TO CLOSE MUSLIM PRAYER SPACE

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