The gap between student battles in Scotland and the rest of the UK is growing
Scottish Labour has today announced a new ‘minimum student income’ of around £9,500 per year. Meanwhile, the UK…
Tuition Fees
Come what May, Labour must defend widening participation in higher education
The “radical review” into tuition fees promised by May today will look into overhauling a regressive system she…
WATCH: Angela Rayner says another review won’t solve student loan interest rates problem
Angela Rayner attacked the Tory government’s record on higher and further education on The Andrew Marr Show today. “We’ve…
PMQs verdict: May in denial as Corbyn searches for a win from the Brexit chaos
Time is ticking for Theresa May. It has been a bad week for her after a bad month…
It would be painful but here’s why Labour should drop its £11bn tuition fees pledge
Labour didn’t win the last election but, if much of the media is to be believed, it was…
Party members wanted Brexit vote at conference, LabourList survey shows
Delegates at party conference should have been given a vote on Brexit, LabourList readers have said. Just over…
Weekly survey: Give your views on Brexit, tuition fees and Syria
At Labour conference last month, there was no significant vote on Brexit after Momentum’s conference app called on…
Forget the PM’s cough – it is the policies and pictures from May’s meltdown that show Labour where it can win
Never before, it seemed, had a prime minister been assailed by such a flurry of disasters in less…
Gordon Marsden: Let’s use education to inaugurate a new era of social mobility
Higher education, and particularly tuition fees, have not been off the agenda since Theresa May called her general…
Labour should impose rent controls on university accommodation – and hoover up more of the student vote
Labour’s popular manifesto, coupled with chants of “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn”, seems to have won the hearts and minds…
