SOLIDARITY WITH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academia, Amber Rudd, certification, contribution, data, doctor, Dominic Scott, education, fees, HE, Home Office, institution, international students, mental health, migration, Migration Advisory Commission, numbers, NUS, savings, solidarity, student, student union, theresa may, tuition, UK Council for International Student Affairs, university, vince cable, visa, work.

by Alex Powell

Not too long ago, a series of news stories began emerging. These stories documented the fact that the government’s estimates for the number of international students who outstay their visas were greatly exaggerated. Despite this, the government has continued to push two convictions. Firstly, that it is appropriate for international students to be included within wider immigration figures, and secondly, that immigration is too high and needs to be cut. These dual premises are having a hugely detrimental impact on the experience of international students, so it is important that other students do all we can to show solidarity with our fellow students and push for changes to this policy.Continue Reading

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: NOT JUST NUMBERS

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged academia, Amber Rudd, data, Dominic Scott, education, fees, HE, Home Office, institution, international students, migration, Migration Advisory Commission, numbers, NUS, savings, student, theresa may, tuition, UK Council for International Student Affairs, university, vince cable, visa.

by Robyn Banks

Last week, yet another of Theresa May’s lies was revealed: the number of international students staying in the UK after their visas expire isn’t anywhere near as high as she has frequently claimed. The idea that international students frequently stay in this country illegally was a touchstone of her policy whilst she sat as the Home Office Minister and has continually been backed up by her cabinet colleagues, including her successor to that ministry Amber Rudd.

However, on Thursday 24th August, the Office for National Statistics released new migration data showing that only 4600 international students have overstayed their visas. Not quite the hundreds of thousands that May, Rudd et al keep harping on about.Continue Reading

THE UK POSTGRADUATE STUDY CRISIS MUST END

Posted on May 20, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academia, Belfast, conferences, crisis, FE, fees, finance, grad school, HE, higher education, institution, mature students, mental health, minimum wage, NEC, NUS, postgrad, postgraduate, research, sexual harassment, socioeconomic, student unions, students, teaching, The 1752 Group, Times Higher, UCU, uk, undergraduate, university fees, Warwick, Warwick Anti-Casualisation.

by Bradley Allsop

Postgraduate study and research is a vital part of the higher education sector and yet in the UK it is in crisis, riddled with multiple, endemic problems.

Firstly, there are systemic problems with postgraduate study in terms of who even gets through the door. Research has shown that, graduates who are women, from certain ethnic minority groups or from lower socio-economic backgrounds are less likely to go on to study at postgraduate level. This is a social injustice in itself, and raises serious questions about the cultures and systems that exist within both academia and society more generally, but it is also to the detriment of academia: academia thrives on diversity.Continue Reading

‘SUCCESS AS A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY’ – THE MARKETISATION OF THE HE WHITE PAPER

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged fees, government, higher education, marketisation, politics, student, students, teaching excellence framework, tef, universities, university.

by Cherry Somersby

We are being scammed again. The Higher Education White Paper, whilst deliberately wordy and confusing, is the latest attack on our right to a free and fair education system. Quite poignantly, our government’s HE White Paper is titled ‘Success as a Knowledge Economy.’ As the name suggests, it is a blueprint for the further marketisation of education. It is a model deliberately constructed to strangle universities of funding so that they can never improve when they fail to meet new Teaching Excellence Framework standards, and it is a further attempt to rank and commercialise universities where education is seen as a commodity to be bought and sold, and students are taught that they exist only as consumers.Continue Reading

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SOLIDARITY WITH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: NOT JUST NUMBERS

THE UK POSTGRADUATE STUDY CRISIS MUST END

‘SUCCESS AS A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY’ – THE MARKETISATION OF THE HE WHITE PAPER

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