Bea Gardner, Southampton Socialist Students University students and staff across the country have been left outraged at the Office for Students’ proposed cuts to university teaching grants as part of the government’s “reprioritisation” strategy for universities. The proposals include the slashing of funding by 50% for high-cost arts and humanities subjects, including music, performing arts,… Read more

Stanley Harris, UAL Socialist Students Since the beginning of the pandemic students across campuses at the University Of The Arts London have been left feeling misled and short changed after handing over their tuition fees and signing onto courses with the assurance that they would be provided with practical and hands on learning that would… Read more

Socialist Students were out in force on Wednesday 21 April across the country campaigning for tuition fee and rent refunds for students and free education. Across 26 different campuses Socialist Students held lively campaign stalls, open air meetings and protests to discuss with students how we can build the campaign on our local campuses, and… Read more

Socialist Students press release – 16/04/21 Students campaigning for free education are organising a national day of action next week, on Wednesday 21st April, calling for tuition fee and rent refunds for students as the first step towards scrapping tuition fees for good. Jake George, a Socialist Students organiser at Nottingham Trent University said: “Students… Read more

Below is a list of Socialist Students protests for our upcoming day of action on Wednesday April 21st. Socialist Students are going to be out across the country protesting for tuition fee refunds for students as a first step towards winning free education. If you’d like to get involved or want more details of your… Read more

Emily Griffin, University of Birmingham Socialist Students On Wednesday 17th March, Socialist Students at the University of Birmingham stood in solidarity with the Reclaim Our Campus protest; a socially distanced vigil recounting the horrific abuse women and other marginalised genders face every day.  With a huge turnout of roughly a thousand UoB students, we listened to impassioned… Read more

Protest with Socialist Students on April 21st for free education – get in touch at socialiststudents.org.uk/join for more info about a local protest near you. Socialist Students says we need: Government funding for what women need on campus – properly funded support services, campus lighting and affordable housing. Scrap marketisation, fees and debt! Democratic oversight… Read more

Below we publish Socialist Students’ discussion document for our upcoming national conference on Sunday 28th February at 1pm. If you’re a socialist student, rent strike campaigner, anti-cuts activist or a student fighting for free education, and you want to discuss how we can build the student movement for free education, then read this document and… Read more

Below we carry an open letter from Socialist Students’ steering committee to the Rent Strike network’s national co-ordinating committee, requesting a meeting with representatives from the Rent Strike network to discuss what the next steps for building a national student fightback for free education are. The Rent Strike network has links to rent strikes happening… Read more

To sign the petition, visit http://chng.it/nKBMzv6FMT Students have been lied to. We were lured to the campuses on the false promise of real life teaching and real life freshers and social events and then locked down, just so university management could get our fees and rent. We’ve suffered the consequences of these lies as we’ve… Read more