THE TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION

Posted on September 7, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged courses, crime, criminal, deterrent, Dr Beth Weaver, education, ethics, featured, Fergus McNeill, HE, higher education, ICT, IT, jail, justice, Office, Open University, prison, prisoner, reform, schools, technology.

by David Breakspear

“ICT and digital systems in prison must support more flexible access to learning that is tailored to the needs of individual learners and enables participation in distance and other learning.” (Coates, 2016)

People are sent to prison as punishment for a crime they are alleged to have committed. I say alleged as I am no longer confident that a finding of guilt in court is an indication of whether the alleged guilty party, is in fact, guilty; however, this is a separate debate.

Why are ICT and digital systems, and of course education, important in prison? Continue Reading

ACADEMIC FREEDOM OR INSTITUTIONALISED TRANSPHOBIA?

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives, Student and tagged academia, academics, featured, gender, glinner, HE, identity, John Collins, letter, nb, Never OK, non-binary, response, rupert read, sex, Stonewall, student unions, SU, terf, trans, transphobes, transphobia, UEA.

By Robyn Banks

Once again, an array of academics have signed a letter complaining about the increased efforts by universities to recognise and support Trans* and Non-Binary students on their campuses. Their reasons for doing so aren’t worth exploring, as they are based on the same logic, or lack thereof, as many transphobes about the realities of gender, sex and identity. The problem we should focus on is that the academics who have signed this letter, and the ones before it, hide behind the claim of ‘Academic Freedom’ in order to try and justify their views.Continue Reading

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

THE NORWICH RADICAL YEAR IN REVIEW 2016

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community, Inter|national, Perspectives, Student and tagged #noDAPL, #readwomen, #shakespeare400, #standwithJNU, 2016, academies, Amelia Womack, articles, arts, Australia, BDS, Beyonce, biomass, black lives matter, BLM, Brazil, Brexit, canada, caroline lucas, Chris Jarvis, Colombia, comics, Community, conference, cricket, cuba, david bowie, divestment, easter rising, editorial, education, empire, Ende Gelände, energy, erik petersen, EU ref, feminism, football, fossil free, France, gender, Green Party, hate crime, HE, Heathtrow 13, housing, India, international, iraq, israel, Italy, IWD, JNU, Jonathan Bartley, journalism, Leave, LEMONADE, LGBTQIA+, malia bouattia, Marina Prentoulis, meantal health, media, mental health, migration, mischief brew, music, national, Nigeria, norfolk, Norway, norwich, Norwich Radical, NUS, owl sanctuary, Panama Papers, people and planet, Perspectives, Peter Tatchell, poetry, PokemonGO, politics, punk, queer, racism, radical, reclaim the power, refuge, refugee, refugees, Remain, representation, resist, review, round up, SAAC, sadiq khan, school, sexuality, Standing Rock, student, student movement, Syria, the gambia, the Philippines, trans, translation, UEA, UEA SU, uk, university, US, US presidential election, violence, visibility, War of Words, whitewashing, wrestlemania, writing, year in review, Zambia.

by The Norwich Radical

2016 was a bleak year for many. Across the world, the forces of liberty, of social progress, and of environmental justice lost time and again in the face of rising fascism, increased alienation, and intensifying conflict. That notwithstanding, there have been moments of light. In the Austrian Presidential election, the electorate confirmed the independently Green candidate Alexander van der Bellen; the #noDAPL water protectors gained a soft victory in early December; in fact, there is a full list of positives from the past year, if you want cheering up.

2016 saw our team expand to more than 25 writers, editors, and artists as well as host our first ever progressive media conference, War of Words. Our readership has grown from 5,000 per month to more than 6,500 per month. In total, nearly 80,000 people have read content on The Norwich Radical website this year.

In 2017, The Norwich Radical will turn three years old, with plans to grow our team and publication more than ever before. We’ll also be returning to Norwich to bring debate and discussion on the future of the media, with War of Words back for a second year. Continue Reading

THE LONGEVITY OF ART

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged adult education, art, artists of colour, arts, arts cuts, austerity, books, budget, catharsis, CILIP, Creative Scotland, creativity, economics, Edinburgh, education, entertainment, funding, Gal-dem, HE, Inverleith House, libraries, literacy, money, National Gallery, National Lottery, New Art Gallery, NHS, numeracy, philanthropy, POC, reading, Tate, V&A, value, Walsall, woc, worth.

by Candice Nembhard

In times of national or personal struggle, we have long since turned to our favourite books, records or films for companionship and reassurance. We find comfort in these creative endeavours – the note of a song or the rhythm of a sentence – that often mirror the nuances of daily existence. Yet, whilst we use these tools of communication, we have yet to fully support them with our time, interest and money. With authorisation from government officials, local authorities have seen their arts funds and budgets cut consistently since 2010. Consequently, libraries, art galleries and museums have been affected most, with numerous closures occurring across the country.Continue Reading

NOT SATISFIED, BUT IRATE – WHY STUDENTS MUST BOYCOTT THE NSS

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Concrete, conservative, conservatives, education, government, HE, HE White Paper, higher education, national student survey, nss, NUS, NUS conference, nusnc16, sombrero, sombrero gate, student, student movement, student union, students, Teaching Excellent Framework, tef, Tories, Tory, UEA, UEA SU, universities, university, University of East Anglia, UUEAS.

by Cherry Somersby

Just last week, a key date in the university calendar fell for another year – the release of the results of the National Student Survey (NSS). The NSS, completed by thousands of final year undergraduate students each year, is a data collection tool that is used to promote competition and rank student satisfaction in universities across the country.Continue Reading

BORDERLINES – OH, I DON’T MEAN YOU

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Borderlines, Inter|national and tagged bicultural, biculturalism, Borderlines, Glasgow, Govanhill, green card, HE, higher education, housing, ILR, immigrant communities, immigration, landlords, marriage, migrant, migration, phD, UKBA, UKBF, university, US.

Borderlines is a collection of thought pieces, some creative, some direct accounts, some memoirs, all true. Borderlines collects stories from people who are not fleeing from one country to another, but rather chose to move, or were made to do so by a series of non-threatening circumstances. In these stories there is anger, hope, disappointment, joy, fear, optimism. They are all different, and yet all striking in their approach to the subject matter.

Borderlines aims to show the reality of migration, and how we are all, in our own way, migrants.Continue Reading

STUDENT FINANCE – COUNTING THE COST OF BASIC UNFAIRNESS

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged education, Free Education, george osborne, HE, inequality, living grants, maintenance grant, michael ashcroft, national demo, national demonstration, price of education, student, student finance, student loan, tax, tory government, university, wealth.

by Rowan Van Tromp

This summer George Osborne announced that the current system of non-repayable, means-tested maintenance grants would be scrapped and replaced by additional maintenance loans. He deemed it “basic unfairness” to ask taxpayers to fund grants for people who are likely to earn a lot more than them.

Perhaps then it’s his experiences of the tax affairs of Tory party benefactors, such as Michael Ashcroft (also known as Lord Ashcroft to those who adhere to the moronic social phenomenon of ‘peerage’), that blinds the Chancellor from the logical conclusion that earning more justifiably means paying higher taxes, to, for instance, provide an equal means by which people can access higher education.Continue Reading

HE

THE TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION

ACADEMIC FREEDOM OR INSTITUTIONALISED TRANSPHOBIA?

SOLIDARITY WITH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: NOT JUST NUMBERS

THE UK POSTGRADUATE STUDY CRISIS MUST END

THE NORWICH RADICAL YEAR IN REVIEW 2016

THE LONGEVITY OF ART

NOT SATISFIED, BUT IRATE – WHY STUDENTS MUST BOYCOTT THE NSS

BORDERLINES – OH, I DON’T MEAN YOU

STUDENT FINANCE – COUNTING THE COST OF BASIC UNFAIRNESS

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