EDUCATION IN ADULTHOOD – BEYOND TUITION FEES #10

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Access to Higher Education, adult education, apprenticeships, Beyond Tuition Fees, casualisation, childcare, colleges, corbyn, distance learning, evening classes, featured, further education, higher education, Labour, Labour Party Manifesto, learning, living grants, National Education Service, Open University, phD, postgraduate, schools, tuition fees, universities.

By Dan Davison

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.

Being a PhD student is an oft-frustrating experience. As well as bearing the brunt of rife casualisation in the education sector, at times I find myself longing for release into the ‘real world’, having been a student for so long. Despite these frustrations, I have recently come to appreciate how much I have learned in my years as a postgraduate. Not just what I was taught on my Master’s and PhD courses, but also what I’ve gained from my access to university resources, including library collections and online databases, and the opportunity associate with other educated people from different walks of life. In terms of both scholarship and life experience, I have learned far more in my postgraduate mid-twenties than I ever did from my undergraduate years.Continue Reading

EXAMS SHOULD BE ABOLISHED – HERE’S WHY

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A-levels, assessment, campaigning, capitalism, casual employment, ChildLine, commodification, consumerism, counselling, education, employment, exam abolition, exams, featured, further education, GCSEs, higher education, hourly-paid tutors, knowledge, marketisation, May '68, mental health, mental health services, national curriculum, NSPCC, Paris '68, phD, postgraduate, postgraduate tutors, revision, schools, skills, stress, student activism, student mental health, teachers, UCL, UCU, undergraduate, universities, university drop outs, workforce, zero hours contracts.

By Dan Davison

Examinations are woven into the fabric of student life. From the ‘Key Stage’ National Curriculum assessments I sat in childhood through to the tests I took as a Master’s student, every stage of my education has known the familiar cycle of revision, testing, marking and grading. It was not until I became a precariously employed university tutor that I realised how dangerously uncritical we are of that cycle. By this point it seems so natural to make people sit exams at various points in their lives that it scarcely occurs to the public consciousness that students and teachers might be better off without such a regimented approach to learning.

TRAILBLAZING – NUS IMPLEMENTS TRANS OFFICER POSITION

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives, Student and tagged further education, higher education, inclusive curriculum, LGBT+, liberation, Noorulann Shahid, NUS conference, nus elections, NUS NEC, trans healthcare, trans officer, trans rights, trans-inclusive sport, transgender.

By Noorulann Shahid, NUS LGBT+ Officer (Open Place)

The year is 2014. A group of trans activists are standing huddled around an iPad in a small room filled with baggage at the University of Nottingham. Glances and expressions of hope, determination and anxiety shoot around the room. I can see the focus in my peers’ eyes. I hastily jot down some notes, soon after which we scatter back onto the conference floor. There is a sense of tension and seriousness in the room as delegates wait to debate a highly-anticipated motion. When the motion is finally called out, the trans rep on NUS LGBT campaign committee delivers an impassioned speech for the creation of a full-time NUS Trans officer.

SOCIAL EQUALITY, NOT SOCIAL MOBILITY

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Boris Johnson, british politics, class, conservative, conservative party, conservatives, education, equality, EU, EU ref, eu ref results, EU referendum, european union, further education, grammar schools, Labour, labour party, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, middle class, olympics, school, social equality, social mobility, Tory, uk politics, working class.

by Olivia Hanks

Theresa May’s indication earlier this month that she will reintroduce selective schooling has reignited the debate on ‘social mobility’. Tory backbenchers believe the secondary modern system (or the grammar school system, as they insist on calling it) was good for social mobility, but various reports support the opposite view, that selective schooling entrenches inequality. Of the tiny percentage of children from working class backgrounds who attended the old grammar schools, two-thirds did not manage to achieve three O-levels.Continue Reading

THE FUTURE OF THE STUDENT MOVEMENT: NUS ELECTIONS 2016 – DANIEL NIKOLLA

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged antisemitism, austerity, climate change, fascism, further education, higher education, inequality, international students, islamophobia, NUS, nus election, nusnc16, politics, racism, student, student election, student movement, student union, Tories, universities, university, war, xenophobia.

The Norwich Radical was born in the student movement, and we continue to be an active part within it. We recognise that while official structures are not the sum total of the movement, they play an undeniably important part and to understand the political consciousness of the student movement, you need to, in part, look at the National Union of Students. As we move into election season for the new NUS President, Vice Presidents and National Executive Council, we contacted all candidates in those elections and offered them the space to write about their election campaigns, why they are standing and their vision for NUS.

By Daniel Nikolla

I am a citizen of the world and I am the President of City and Islington College. Being a full time student, unpaid Student Union Officer and a non-EU International student in the UK is not easy at all! I take inspiration from the difficult things I have achieved in the past – Being an amateur to semi-PRO footballer from the age of nine, to moving to the UK aged 20. I also take inspiration from my family, who achieved so much in an oppressed society.Continue Reading

STUDENTS: END AUSTERITY NOW! JOIN THE NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged anti austerity, arts, austerity, climate change, climate crisis, conservative, debt, demonstration, disability, DSA, education, EMA, employment, environmental crisis, food bank, fossil fuel, fossil fuel industry, further education, ge15, general election, higher education, humanities, international students, Kafka, national demonstration, NUS, poverty, protest, renewable energy, STEM, student debt, student loan, the peoples assembly against austerity, university, workers.

by Liam McCafferty

Over the last five years, students have felt the impact of austerity. With the recent election shock of a Conservative majority, we can expect further hardship: more cuts, more pain. But how exactly have students been affected by austerity, and why should we care?

NUS NATIONAL CONFERENCE: VOTE SHAKIRA FOR VP FURTHER EDUCATION

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged education, FE, further education, general election, NUS, nusnc15, student, student election.

In the run up to the National Conference of the National Union of Students, we have offered all candidates for President, Vice President, and Block of 15 the opportunity to write articles for us explaining their priorities, their manifesto and why delegates should support them and elect them to their respective roles. Each candidate is allowed between 600 and 1,000 words, and we will publish each article in the order that we receive them.

by Shakira MartinContinue Reading

further education

EDUCATION IN ADULTHOOD – BEYOND TUITION FEES #10

EXAMS SHOULD BE ABOLISHED – HERE’S WHY

TRAILBLAZING – NUS IMPLEMENTS TRANS OFFICER POSITION

THE FUTURE OF THE STUDENT MOVEMENT: NUS ELECTIONS 2016 – DANIEL NIKOLLA

STUDENTS: END AUSTERITY NOW! JOIN THE NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION

NUS NATIONAL CONFERENCE: VOTE SHAKIRA FOR VP FURTHER EDUCATION

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