ONLINE LEARNING, COVID AND CLASSISM

Posted on June 15, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged class, coronavirus, Covid-19, education, employability, featured, higher education, mental health, online learning, privilege, stress, student finance, student life, university, working class, working class students.

By Kasper Hassett

Although UK universities boast that their online teaching provision is adequate to the current crisis, deep-rooted inequalities in the class system cause the poorest students to suffer the most. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, working-class students are faced with more challenges than usual, and are also less able to access online teaching than their middle- and upper-class peers. Despite their disproportionate struggle to engage with remote teaching, universities are refusing to show leniency with deferrals and adjustments, feigning blindness to a violently unjust class system. The response of universities to this pandemic is insufficient at best, and places those students facing hardship at an even further disadvantage.

HIGHER EDUCATION IN A POST-FEES WORLD – BEYOND TUITION FEES #1

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academics, activists, Beyond Tuition Fees, Bright Green, consumerism, cost of living, democracy, diversity, education, employability, featured, Free Education, future, government, HE policy, higher education, jeremy corbyn, Labour, Lib Dems, marketisation, mental health, NUS, postgraduate tutors, progressives, representation, sexual harassment, social justice, social mobility, strike action, student activism, student debt, student experience, student life, students, students' unions, Tories, trade unions, tuition fees, UCU strike, uk, universities, university staff, utopianism, welfare.

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 new series, the Norwich Radical and Bright Green are bringing together perspectives from across the sector to explore these questions.

Politics is in a very different place than a few years ago. Radical change feels possible, tangible, close. The Labour Party’s pledge to scrap tuition fees is one of many signs of this – welcome, and necessary to salvage higher education from the marketised juggernaut it has become. But just abolishing fees is not enough to fix all of higher education’s problems.

“NUS IS YET TO FULLY EXPLORE THE VALUE ADDED BY INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS” – NUS ELECTIONS 2018: RIDDI VISWANATHAN

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #NUSConference, #NUSNC18, democracy, higher education, NUS, NUS conference, NUS Elections 2018, politics, student activism, student life, student movement, students, students' unions.

The Norwich Radical was born in the student movement, and we continue to play an active role within it. We recognise that while official structures are not the sum total of the movement, they are undeniably important. Following a highly controversial year for both the National Union of Students itself and the higher education sector as a whole, we contacted all candidates standing for the President, Vice-President and National Executive Council roles and offered them the space to write about their election campaigns, why they are standing and their visions for NUS.

“IT’S TIME TO AMPLIFY OUR POSITIVE VISION” – NUS ELECTIONS 2018: SHAKIRA MARTIN

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #NUSConference, #NUSNC18, democracy, higher education, NUS, NUS conference, NUS Elections 2018, politics, student activism, student life, student movement, students, students' unions.

“STUDENT WELFARE IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL”- NUS ELECTIONS 2018: EVA CROSSAN JORY

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #NUSConference, #NUSNC18, democracy, higher education, NUS, NUS conference, NUS Elections 2018, politics, student activism, student life, student movement, students, students' unions.

“THIS IS THE TIME FOR RADICALISM” – NUS ELECTIONS 2018: SAHAYA JAMES

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #NUSConference, #NUSNC18, democracy, higher education, NUS, NUS conference, NUS Elections 2018, politics, student activism, student life, student movement, students, students' unions.

SHIFTING THE SPOTLIGHT IN THE VC PAY DEBATE

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academia, academic staff, BAME, BAME academics, diversity, George Holmes, government, HESA, homogeneity, ivory tower, jo johnson, Louise Richardson, media, overpaid, Oxford University, pay, phD, research, researchers, salaries, Southampton University, standard of living, student activism, student life, underpaid, VC salaries, Vice Chancellors, wage gap, wages, women, women academics.

by Robyn Banks

Throughout the summer the debate around vice chancellor pay has continued to play out. Government and media figures have joined students in their long standing expression of outrage at absurd rates of pay, whilst the VCs themselves have come out to defended their salaries, some with a remarkable lack of self-awareness. Oxford VC Louise Richardson recently joined the fray with this startlingly uncaring remark: “My own salary is £350,000. That’s a very high salary compared to our academics who I think are, junior academics especially, very lowly paid.”

REVIVING CAMPUS ACTIVISM – A ROADMAP

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academia, academic culture, academics, access, accessible academia, accountability, alliances, Apartheid, austerity, awareness, awareness raising, British political history, Campaign for Lincoln Democracy, campaign strategy, campaigning, campus culture, co-operation, co-operative university, collective action, communication, Community, culture, curricula, curriculum reform, decision making, democracy, democratic higher education, depoliticised unions, direct action, diversity, economics, economics education, elections, employment rights, escalation, experts, GE17, government, grassroots, higher education, hubris, international organising, investigative journalism, Lincoln SU, Lincoln University, listicles, lobbying, local media, manchester, media, neoliberalism, occupation, organising, petitions, pluralism, politics, Post-Crash Economics Society, postgraduate tutors, Queen's University Belfast Students' Union, Queens' University Belfast, radical media, referendum, Rethinking Economics, senior management, Social Science Centre Lincoln, startup media, strategy, student activism, student democracy, student elections, student experience scores, student life, student media, student societies, students, students' unions, teaching, teaching staff, trade unions, uk, uk politics, universities, university staff, War of Words, Warwick Anti-Casualisation, Warwick University, workers, workers rights, working conditions, WOW 2016, young people, youth turnout.

by Bradley Allsop

We live in turbulent times. The political establishment has been rocked again and again this last year. The government is embattled in a way it hasn’t been for 7 years and that rarest of things in British politics, change, is peeking its head above the parapet. What’s more, for the first time in my lifetime, it seems my generation is willing to be an active participant in all this. June’s election saw the highest rise in youth turnout in British political history – it reached its highest absolute level since 1992. It falls to those of us already engaged to fan this flame and help it spread beyond the ballot box, building the political courage and competencies of our fellows. Nowhere offers a better opportunity for us to do this than on university campuses.

DEBT RISING – HOW TUITION FEES ARE KILLING UNIVERSITIES

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Aberystwyth University, campus closures, ConDem coalition, course cuts, cuts, Durham University, Free Education, GE17, government, graduates, Green Party, HE funding, interest, Labour, Manchester Metropolitan University, marketisation, Parliament, student debt, student life, student loans, student loans sell off, students, teaching, tony blair, Tories, tuition fees, universities, university closures, university of manchester, votes, voting.

by Robyn Banks

Last week it was announced that the total student debt in the UK has reached over £100 billion for the first time. Whilst this milestone was inevitable, it is nonetheless an indictment of the current government’s claim that it is easy and convenient for students to pay off their debt under the post-2010 system.

“WE FEEL DEMONISED” – UEA TO CLOSE MUSLIM PRAYER SPACE

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives, Student and tagged #SaveOurSpace, anti-Islamic, david richardson, demonstration, discrimination, disrespect, faith, hate crime, human rights, Islam, Muslim, Muslim students, petition, places of worship, prayer, protest, religion, religious rights, service closures, student activism, student life, student rights, students, UEA, UEA Islamic Society.

by UEA Islamic Society

On Wednesday, a group of Muslim students at UEA, including committee members of UEA Islamic Society, found out that the university is intending to close one the Muslim prayer spaces on campus this Sunday. UEA didn’t tell them – they only heard about it by chance. There has been no consultation with Muslim students. As they start a campaign to call out UEA for this unacceptable, dismissive action, we spoke to ISoc members and other involved students about the importance of the spaces and their reactions to the news.

student life

ONLINE LEARNING, COVID AND CLASSISM

“NUS IS YET TO FULLY EXPLORE THE VALUE ADDED BY INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS” – NUS ELECTIONS 2018: RIDDI VISWANATHAN

“IT’S TIME TO AMPLIFY OUR POSITIVE VISION” – NUS ELECTIONS 2018: SHAKIRA MARTIN

“STUDENT WELFARE IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL”- NUS ELECTIONS 2018: EVA CROSSAN JORY

“THIS IS THE TIME FOR RADICALISM” – NUS ELECTIONS 2018: SAHAYA JAMES

SHIFTING THE SPOTLIGHT IN THE VC PAY DEBATE

DEBT RISING – HOW TUITION FEES ARE KILLING UNIVERSITIES

“WE FEEL DEMONISED” – UEA TO CLOSE MUSLIM PRAYER SPACE

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