Education
Students locked in at universities as system profits
Thousands of people are isolating in student accommodation after a spate of virus outbreaks at universities. Students told Sophie Squire that they are being left without support—and slammed the ‘entirely predictable’ crisis
Strike threat at Soas university stops redundancies
Workers at Soas University of London have pushed back compulsory redundancies by threatening strikes.
Solidarity with Soas strikes planned to fight redundancies
Unison union members at Soas University of London are set to strike on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
Schools on brink of outbreaks
Scores of schools across England have closed or partially closed after positive coronavirus cases.
Coronavirus outbreaks in schools means students and staff still at risk
Over 100 school outbreaks of coronavirus had been reported across Britain by Friday of last week. They include 73 in Scotland, where schools began to reopen from mid-August.
Students return to schools despite safety fears
Children across England have begun returning to schools this week. The Tories claim they want everyone back so that students don’t miss out on education and vulnerable children have more support.
No cash for virus health and safety as schools open doors
31 August 2020Schools don’t have enough money to protect children and staff against coronavirus. Yet the Tories want schools across England to begin fully reopening from this week.
Manchester LGBT+ demo AND Napier strike vote gets results AND Sheffield Deliveroo revolt
25 August 2020A protest was called by a Polish LGBT+ activist living in Britain to express solidarity with LGBT+ people in Poland facing vicious bigotry
Unfair exam grades still punishing students
24 August 2020A fresh row has broken out over exam grades. And it exposes the way that the system operates to drive down the results of working class children
Student revolt continues as Williamson clings on and key issues remain
20 August 2020One student says, 'The U-turn was a massive victory, but this is only going to finish when we get education reform and get rid of scum like Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson'
Exams U-turn shows that action can beat the Tories
18 August 2020Students have taught all of us a lesson in class war. Protest gets results.
Fury forces Tory exam cheats to retreat—now Gavin Williamson must go
17 August 2020Widespread fury over the exams degrading scandal has forced the Tories into a humiliating U-turn
Futures ruined by Tories’ rigged results
14 August 2020Class is trashing the lives of hundreds of thousands of students. The downgrading of swathes of A-Level students’ grades in England and Wales has exposed how the system operates to keep working class people in check.
Furious students protest over A-Levels scandal
14 August 2020Students marched in central London on Friday demanding that Tory education secretary Gavin Williamson resign. They chanted 'No Tories, no cheats, no Eton elites'.
Take to streets against Tory exams injustice
13 August 2020The downgrading of student A-Level results across England and Wales is a disgraceful attack that has to be resisted.
Tory retreat on exams still fails to make the grade
12 August 2020The Tories are scrambling to try and contain an outpouring of anger over student exam results. Fury at the downgrading of hundreds of thousands of students’ grades has pushed education secretary Gavin Williamson into a humiliating retreat.
End an unfair exam system
11 August 2020Class, not ability, determines what grades you get in school— and the exams fiasco in Scotland made that explicit.
Solidarity with the fightback in universities
11 August 2020UCU union activists planed protests and rallies on Thursday this week against mass job cuts and the gutting of education.
Women’s lives are forgotten in pandemic
10 August 2020As schools are forced to close and childcare becomes less available the pressure on women as primary caregivers to children has greatly increased.Sarah Bates looks at why this is and talks to those bearing the brunt of this crisis
Downgrades of Scottish exam results shows class bias
05 August 2020Scottish teachers' judgements about pupils' exam grades have been overruled, and there's a strong element of class inequality built into the process.
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- Asylum seeker granted limited leave to stay but says the fight isn't over
- Handling of the virus has made mental distress worse
- The Tories’ jobs scheme—patching up a failing jobs market
- Anger on the streets after killers of Breonna Taylor not charged for her death
- Sunak gives bosses another bailout while workers still face job and pay cuts
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