THE TIMES, THE TORIES, ST ANDREWS AND THE OXBRIDGE DINOSAUR

Posted on November 6, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged featured, Norwich Radical, students, Tories, university, University of St Andrews.

By Sarah Edgcumbe

The Times newspaper is at it again. Since the 1^st October, it has been attempting to whip white British right-wingers into a fury by portraying freedom of speech as being in danger. According to The Times, students (read: white students) are falling prey to authoritarian demands that they accept “personal guilt” at St Andrews University. Odd, that only since it beat Oxford and Cambridge to the title of the UK’s top university, has the paper fixated on St Andrews’ supposed institutional villainhood like a rabid dog.

‘OPEN YOUR EYES’: STUDENTS URGE UNIVERSITIES TO TACKLE RAPE CULTURE ON CAMPUS

Posted on June 19, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged "Open Your Eyes" Campaign, @openyoureyesda, Blessing Olusegun, featured, norwich, sarah everard, students, UEA, University of Exeter, University of Warwick, We're In This Together.

by Kasper Hassett

CW: Discussions of sexual harassment and abuse

Conversations around sexual assault, particularly the danger to women, are often sparked too late. The horrifying, untimely deaths and treatment of Sarah Everard and Blessing Olusegun by police rightly attracted attention, but vigils in their names cannot undo the violence against them. They can instil solidarity between those mourning and sympathising, but often, once the tealights are extinguished, so are the conversations.

PRESUMED KNOWLEDGE AND IMPOSTER SYNDROME IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academia, accessibility, art, books, class, class privilege, cultural capital, cultural hegemony, curriculum, exclusion, featured, high culture, higher education, imposter syndrome, marginalisation, middle class, middle class students, museums, privilege, students, UEA, university, University Challenge, working class, working class students.

By Kasper Hassett

Last week, as I walked past my housemate’s room, I overheard her in an online meeting with her dissertation supervisor. ‘My uncle’s a lecturer in the same topic,’ she said, ‘so he can help me with that.’ At the time, I marvelled at how convenient that must be. But then, I started to think about how frequently I see this: middle class students aided by family or family friends in their studies, often receiving a great deal of support and extra resources. Are there any instances, I wondered, where I as a working class student have benefitted educationally from family connections?

SHELTERED, BUT NOT FROM MUCH: CLASS-BASED BARRIERS TO STUDENT HOUSING

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged acorn, campaign, Community, coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, featured, guarantor, house, housing, international students, landlord, norwich, private accommodation, rent, social status, students, UEA, UEA SU, uk, university, University of East Anglia, working class.

by Kasper Hassett

This month, many returning university students are settling into house-shares in the private rental sector, as the first-year intake prepares to move into halls of residence shortly after. However, for students whose families live in poverty, there are a number of barriers to accessing rental homes, which have worsened this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has also constructed new obstacles to prevent poorer students from relying on campus accommodation.

TO DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS, UEA MUST DIVEST FROM BARCLAYS

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Barclays, BP, careers events, climate change, climate emergency, Divest Barclays, divestment, education, employment, energy, engineering, ethical investment, featured, fossil free, Fossil Free UEA, fossil fuels, graduates, higher education, Loughborough University, media, norwich, oil, people and planet, Portsmouth University, recruitment, Shell, student activism, students, students' unions, UEA, universities, zero carbon.

By Henry Webb

Higher Education institutions have the power to decide whether the fossil fuel industry lives or dies. The dominant players in the energy sector may seem unstoppable. After all, as long as the oil keeps flowing, they’ll find someone to buy it. Their lobbyists will make sure of that. But these behemoths require resources beyond those of just the raw coal, oil, and gas that we are so dependent on – they need capital. Without investment banks to finance everything from pipelines to offshore rigs, the costly infrastructure needed for fossil fuel extraction just wouldn’t exist.

ACORN NORWICH – THE UNION TAKING ON DODGY LANDLORDS

Posted on June 19, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged Acorn Norwich, ACORN Tenants' Union, activism, austerity, Brighton, Bristol, campaigning, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dereham, direct action, featured, flatfair, Generation Rent, Goldsmith street, grassroots, health and safety, housing, housing costs, landlords, letting agents, manchester, member defense, norwich, Norwich City Council, online activism, renting, residents, Sheffield, student accommodation, students, UEA, unions, wages, workers.

By Sean Meleady

Norwich may call itself a ‘fine city’, but this isn’t always the case for renters. Despite some positive stories, such as the Goldsmith Street social housing project, many tenants find life in the city tough.

A KINDER KIND OF POWER: WORDS FROM THE UEA PICKET LINE

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Community, Student and tagged #UCUStrikesBack, BME pay gap, casualisation, corruption, david richardson, featured, gender pay gap, inequality, international students, Neil Ward, overworking, pensions, picket lines, power, precarity, protest, redundancy, solidarity, strike, strike action, students, UCU, UCU strike, UEA, UEA SU, UEA UCU, universities, university staff, USS, UUK, VC salaries, visas, wages, workers rights, working conditions.

By Rowan Gavin

We are the morning greeting. We are cold boots on colder ground. We are the smiles in the winter sunshine. We are the chants and the songs and the stiff-limbed dances. We are the fascinator of freedom, the little red coat of resistance and packet line soylidarity. We are the educators, learning in a new classroom. We are the outrage, and the laughter. We are here to fight the power. We are power.

THIS ELECTION IS THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES – HERE’S HOW WE CAN WIN IT

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged art, Brexit, campaigning, doorknocking, environment, family, fascism, featured, general election, general election 2019, green new deal, higher education, inequality, jeremy corbyn, Labour, marketisation, memes, momentum, music, NUS, political art, politics, public services, register to vote, social media, student debt, students, unions, universities, vote, young people.

By Bradley Allsop

The world is on the brink. A shattered environment, gargantuan inequality, a burgeoning mental health crisis, fascism openly spreading across Europe, public services at breaking point… but also the possibility of more radical and progressive change than we’ve seen in decades. Higher education specifically also faces two radically different paths ahead of it: continued marketisation, eroding academic integrity, burdening a generation with enormous debt, crushing academics under enormous workloads, increasingly insecure employment and workplace stress – or publicly funded higher education that opens up space to imagine and create a different sort of campus.

IN DEFENCE OF STUDENT POLITICS

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged 1968, activism, anti-apartheid, climate change, criticism, featured, fossil free, higher education, Hogwarts, marketisation, medicine, mental health, nurses, NUS, palestine, politics, postgraduate, precarious labour, privilege, science, social work, solidarity, stereotypes, student activism, student debt, student politics, students, students' unions, teachers, trade unions, vietnam war, voting, working class.

By Bradley Allsop

The only way to make the word ‘politics’, that great indicator of all manner of corruption and trickery, more contemptible is to plonk the word ‘student’ in front of it. It almost feels like you‘re not pronouncing ‘student politics’ right if you do it without a sneer, or at least a shudder. Student politics has an image problem.

#NOTENOUGH – UEA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #NotEnough, Ayeshah Lalloo, counselling, david richardson, featured, Jess Fairweather, Jonathan Walker, mental health, Nick Sadler, norwich, solidarity, Sophie Smith, stress, Student Support Services, student welfare, students, suicide, Theo Brennan Hulme, UEA, UEA SU, universities, WeWillBeHeard, young people.

By Jess O’Dwyer

Content warning: mentions suicide

Going to university is a challenging time. For many it is their first time away from home with full independence. New students are presented with countless opportunities and choices, many of which will shape and change them as people. For people with mental health issues, however, this challenge is often exacerbated.

students

THE TIMES, THE TORIES, ST ANDREWS AND THE OXBRIDGE DINOSAUR

By Sarah Edgcumbe

‘OPEN YOUR EYES’: STUDENTS URGE UNIVERSITIES TO TACKLE RAPE CULTURE ON CAMPUS

by Kasper Hassett

PRESUMED KNOWLEDGE AND IMPOSTER SYNDROME IN HIGHER EDUCATION

By Kasper Hassett

TO DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS, UEA MUST DIVEST FROM BARCLAYS

By Henry Webb

ACORN NORWICH – THE UNION TAKING ON DODGY LANDLORDS

A KINDER KIND OF POWER: WORDS FROM THE UEA PICKET LINE

#NOTENOUGH – UEA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS

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