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Less than 48 hours after marching on Westminster against growing student debt, free education campaigners have decided to walk out in response to the new higher-education Green Paper.
Under the paper’s proposals, ministers would take control of tuition fee thresholds and some universities would be able to charge significantly more than others for topping a “value for money” table, creating a two-tier system.
Universities Minister Jo Johnson said the reforms would still be “delivering value for money for students” and doing “a better job still at delivering the pipeline of graduates we need for a 21st-century economy like ours.”
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
PHILIP ENGLISH says military spending will not create the jobs young people need — instead, build an economy based around needs, not profit
The government’s retreat on PIP still leaves 150,000 new universal credit claimants facing halved benefits from April 2026, creating a discriminatory two-tier welfare system that campaigners must continue fighting, writes DR DYLAN MURPHY