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5 June 2019
Theresa May admits tuition fees system is broken - but plans new attacks on students
Theresa May has admitted that her and the Tories got it wrong on tuition fees and higher education funding.
20 March 2019
Top unis threaten cuts if tuition fees
The elitist club of top universities known as the Russell Group has recently threatened that any reduction of student tuition fees will result in cuts to course numbers, as well as the arts and social mobility programmes.
1 November 2017
Socialist Students has called for Labour to put a free education amendment to the Tory budget
27 September 2017
Scrap tuition fees: Tuition fees can be beaten. Chancellor Phillip Hammond's announcement that he will consider lowering them in the next Tory budget is an indication of his government's enormous weakness
5 July 2017
Tories' tuition fees wobble: fight for free education!
The Tories must "change hard" on their approach to university fees, according to First Secretary of State Damian Green
24 May 2017
Corbyn's pledge: free education - May's plan: hike fees
In an announcement which will galvanise the support of millions of young people, Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to immediately scrap university tuition fees for students
27 July 2016
Tories plan further fee hikes for uni students
The Tories want universities that meet their backbreaking 'teaching excellence framework' targets to be allowed to increase the cost of their courses with inflation. Universities including Manchester have already announced their fees will rise to £9,250 in 2017, before parliament has even considered the measure.
6 January 2016
Union action needed to defeat attack on student nurses
The government's 2015 Autumn Statement announced that it intends to end the payment of student bursaries for nursing, midwifery and allied health professional students - as proposed by the Council of Deans of Health - from 1 September 2017. This has been met with anger and alarm.
25 February 2015
Fight tuition fees - support the TUSC alternative
Labour's recent announcement that, given a win at the up-coming elections, they plan on reducing tuition fees to £6,000 a year would be laughable to students if it was not a complete insult
3 September 2014
Join the fight for free education and student grants!
We now have to stay in compulsory education until we're 18, without Education Maintenance Allowance
9 November 2011
We won't pay £9K! - Scrap tuition fees
Last month it was revealed that as the Ucas university application service opened for 2012, applications were down by 9% on last year...
21 September 2011
University - pay more, receive less
I was pained to learn that I would be saddled with £20,000 worth of debt when I leave university, when previous generations had been able to study effectively for free, writes Alex Wortley, Bristol.
6 April 2011
Tuition fees hike: Of the 24 universities that have so far announced the tuition fees they are intending to charge from 2012, 16 are planning the maximum £9,000 a year for all courses...
Young people march for a future: Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students on the 29 January London demonstration against education cuts, photo Senan
16 February 2011
Tuition fees increase spells misery for students: Build a united fightback!
Thousands of young people have had their hopes and aspirations dashed as more and more universities declare their intention to charge the full £9,000 a year tuition fees, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Youth Fight for Education.
Ian Pattison addresses 9 December Day X student demo against fee rises
10 December 2010
Day X student demo against fee rises
9th December 2010: what the students said
November 24th student demonstrations against tuition fees rises and the abolition of the EMA, photo Senan
8 December 2010
Hundreds of thousands of young people have taken to the streets against the Con-Dem destruction of education, writes Suzanne Beishon.
13 December 2003
TONY BLAIR has had a bruising year. Millions have demonstrated against war in Iraq, public sector workers have taken strike action over pay and MPs have revolted over Iraq and foundation hospitals. He...
13 December 2003
Exposed: Labour's plans to bring the 'market' into higher education
Facts Behind The Fees: THE UNIVERSITY top-up fees Bill is causing a major headache for Tony Blair. He is desperately trying to sell it to an angry public and to rebellious Labour MPs. Zena Awad is the national coordinator of...
6 December 2003
"LISTEN AND scrap fees" was the plea from last month's National Union of Students demonstration. But the message still falls on deaf ears in Downing Street, writes Michael Comerford, Socialist Students, Brunel University.
4 October 2003
BLAIR SAYS that every New Labour policy will go through a fairness test. What hypocrisy! This from the man who is pushing top-up tuition fees even though 80% of the population and most of his own party...
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