THE UK’S INSTITUTIONAL RACISM

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Amber Rudd, anti black, black lives matter, BLM, crime, discrimination, division, establishment, featured, Home Office, institution, international, platform, racism, Stephen Lawrence, uk, windrush, xenophobia.

by Gunnar Eigener

Institutional racism has, for many years, been the more unpleasant side of societies throughout the world. Black and other minority communities have long been oppressed by predominately white police departments. Crimes within these communities have rarely received the attention that equivalent crimes in white neighbourhoods have. Civil rights marches have been going on for years, social media tracks the violence of police forces, and the alternative media exposes the racist actions of institutions and establishment figures. But has anything really changed? Have we made any progress that truly shows a change in perception? Sadly, it doesn’t seem so.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

CAN I HAVE AN EDUCATIONAL REFUND?

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged A level, academies, Connie Asenback, consumers, degree, education, Free Education, future, graduate, graduate job, Hospitality, humanities, institution, learning, libraries, Mälardalen University, modules, money, non graduate job, privatisation, service, student, tuition fees, university, value, voluntary, worth.

by Candice Nembhard

It’s not wrong to ask what university is actually for, is it? As a soon to be graduate, it almost seems expected to find myself questioning what I have been doing for the last three years. Admittedly, a lot of all-nighters and sleep, but more importantly, I am pondering as to what I’ve actually learnt in my time as a student.

I’ve had a flick through all my old notes, essay papers, and emails and amidst it all, I am struggling to find that hallmark which encapsulates what it means to be a student and a humanities one at that. I am not necessarily taking a stab at the content of my degree, rather I am querying its usefulness, and how I can apply what I’ve been taught into my daily activities. No doubt there are many modules, books, and ideas that will stay with me for some time to come, but my question is, what is the practical value of obtaining a degree and should there even be one?Continue Reading

ITS A LANGAUGE FING

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged a clockwork orange, Academie Francaise, academis, Accademia della Crusca, argots, authoritarian, Burgess, Cambridge English, Cixous, conservative, cultural evolution, cultural imperialism, dictionaries, dictionary, education, emoji, emotion, ESL, ESOL, institution, Italian language, language, language evolution, language purist, linguist, netspeak, Nietszche, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, Polari, prescriptive, pseudo-linguist, radical, reality, rules of language, slang, sociolects, TEFL, txtspeak, university, university courses, words.

by Alex Valente

Unless you’re an internet native, have dyslexia, or just didn’t read it, the title of this piece is probably irritating you to no end right about now. It took me a while to intentionally write ‘wrong’. I do not apologise.

I was having a conversation with an ex-student and friend a couple of weeks ago, about how language is being dealt with by certain university courses, and we stumbled over some of the commentary brought about by Nietzsche and Cixous. The points, respectively, boil down to: we use language to create truths that underpin our concept of reality; that reality is predominantly, and prescriptively, structured — mostly in a kyriarchal way. While I am not disagreeing entirely, the danger is to view language as more of an abstract entity than what it really is.Continue Reading

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THE UK’S INSTITUTIONAL RACISM

SOLIDARITY WITH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: NOT JUST NUMBERS

THE UK POSTGRADUATE STUDY CRISIS MUST END

CAN I HAVE AN EDUCATIONAL REFUND?

ITS A LANGAUGE FING

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