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STUDENTS will confront the Tories this winter with a nationwide strike in protest at the axing of maintenance grants, National Union of Students (NUS) representatives announced yesterday.
The NUS national executive pledged its support for the initiative, which has not been seen in Britain since 1971.
Maintenance grants have allowed thousands of lower-income people to go to university but were scrapped this summer by Chancellor George Osborne, who deemed them “unaffordable.”
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
KEVIN COURTNEY of Stand Up to Racism and JOHN PAGE of the Ella Baker School of Organising announce a joint project aiming to unite trade unions and social movements in creating new narratives to fight the divisive rhetoric of the far right
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE