NEW TOWNS TO POOR DOORS: SOCIAL HOUSING OVER THE DECADES

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community, Perspectives and tagged acorn, City, city planning, class, classism, council flat, council tenants, economy, featured, hierarchy, housing, housing crisis, milton keynes, neighbourhood plans, new town, post war, social housing, tenant.

by Kasper Hassett

To most people, thinking of social housing might typically invoke one of two images: kids weaving big-wheeled bikes between identical high rises; or post-war ‘new town’ developments, which historically placed workers and their families in entirely new communities in industrial areas. These possibilities may ring true for some people’s lived experiences, but with the decline of new social housing developments at a time when they are needed most, the few new properties being released to social housing tenants are often nestled among more expensive housing only available to more affluent residents, in ways which alienate the poor. In fact, social housing now is so far removed from dominant expectations of cohesive, mono-class communities that it is hard to spot.

THE FUTURE OF STUDENTS’ UNIONS – BEYOND TUITION FEES #4

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged activism, Arts SU, Beyond Tuition Fees, block grants, bureaucracy, Charities Act 2011, Charities Commission, charity law, checks and balances, co-operatives, consumer culture, consumerism, corbyn, democracy, Education Act 1994, Free Education, grassroots, hierarchy, higher education, Labour, legislation, Lincoln SU, NUS, online voting, Parliament, policy, politics, representation, sabbatical officers, Sahaya James, Stop the Elephant Development, student activism, students' unions, SU finance, trade unions, transparency, trustees, tuition fees, UAL, uk, union bars, university management.

By Bradley Allsop and Calum Watt

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.

Students’ Unions are meant to defend students’ rights, fighting with and for them during their time at university and beyond. However, modern SUs are often dominated by corporate thinking, consumer culture and cosy collusion with university management. Radical, grassroots democracy is often muted or discouraged, channelled instead into more temperate, gradual and piecemeal avenues by Unions centralised in their functioning and timid in their approach.

WILL UEA DO WHAT’S RIGHT FOR PHD ASSOCIATE TUTORS?

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academia, academic staff, access, access to employment, application processes, complaints, contracts, disrespect, diversity, elitism, employee feedback, employment rights, equality and diversity monitoring, hierarchy, higher education, hours, HR, male dominance, marking, mental health, nepotism, pay, phD, PhD Associate Tutors, postgraduate, postgraduate community, postgraduate tutors, recruitment, report, rights, shift covering, student employment, student mental health, students, support, temporary contracts, trade unions, training, UEA, UEA School of Arts Media and American Studies, UEA School of Chemistry, UEA School of International Development, UEA School of Politics Philosophy and Language and Communication Studies, UEA Student Experience Committee, UEA SU, unconscious bias, undergraduate teaching, unpaid work, white dominance.

by Maddie Colledge, UEA SU Postgraduate Education Officer

Following a steady drip of complaints to the SU in recent years, the Postgraduate Committee have this year steered me to focus my efforts on launching research into the experience of our PhD Associate Tutors (ATs). We already knew some of the issues that our ATs face and had brought them to the University’s attention, but in light of little change since then, it seemed a full review was needed. Following the publication of that review, I’d like to share our findings with you as well as our plans for the future (the full report can be found here).

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THE FUTURE OF STUDENTS’ UNIONS – BEYOND TUITION FEES #4

WILL UEA DO WHAT’S RIGHT FOR PHD ASSOCIATE TUTORS?

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