BLINDED BY IDEOLOGY – TWO YEAR DEGREES REVISITED

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged career focus, class, class divide, competition, cuts, economics, education, fast track degrees, first time buyers, Free Education, free school meals, government, grades, HE policy, higher education, ideology, interest, isolation, lower socio-economic backgrounds, market economics, mental health, mental health services, middle class, minority government, module diversity, money grab, overwork, state funding, student debt, student finance, student loans, student support, student welfare, students, teaching, teaching quality, The Student Room, time pressure, Times Higher Education, Tories, tuition fees, two tier system, two year degrees, underfunding, wealth inequality, working class, working class students.

Back in March, the MinoriTory government announced the idea of running fast track two year degree courses in the hope of saving students money. Last week the Times Higher Education supplement revealed that surveyed students from lower socio-economic backgrounds would be more likely to take this option up if it existed. Could the Tories’ apparently hare-brained scheme in fact be justified?

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WHO ARE THE DUP?

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged abortion, absolute boy, BLUKIP, Brexit, climate change, conservatism, conservatives, Counter Terrorism, creationism, cyber security, Democratic Unionist Party, detention bill, DUP, gay marriage, general election, Good Friday, Gordon Brown, hardline, homophobia, Ian Paisley, IRA, Irish Republican, jeremy corbyn, Labour, militia, minority government, national living wage, NI, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly, Orange Order, Parliament, peace process, pension triple lock, Peter Robinson, protestant, PUP, racism, religion, Rihanna, same-sex marriage, Sinn Féin, terrorism, theresa may, Troubles, UK government, Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Resistance, Ulster Volunteer Force, universal benefits, US Conservative, wheat fields.

Content warning: article mentions terrorism, (anti) abortion, homophobia, racism

So, the election was fun, right? Even if you didn’t vote Labour (and fair enough if you didn’t), watching Theresa May fall from an unassailable lead in the polls all the way to a humiliatingly hung Parliament, in a blizzard of vague soundbites, invasive and inadequate policies and flailing attempts to smear the opposition, was still rather viscerally satisfying in its own way. Early Friday morning saw a weird sense of relief from many who expected a Tory landslide.

Unfortunately, early Friday morning turned to mid-Friday morning, and then suddenly dove back into the bad old days, with the announcement that a desperate May government had decided to form a ‘confidence and supply’ agreement with the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in order to form a government.Continue Reading

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