The University of Sussex voted to join the Teaching Excellence Framework on the 25th November, despite serious concerns from students, staff and academics. The TEF, which is…
Sussex students voted against renaming the title of President in a referendum on the issue this week. 65% of the 866 students that took part in the…
Sussex’s Students’ Union will hold another referendum on renaming the role of President for the third year running. Students will be asked in the penultimate week of…
Malia Bouattia has been elected as the new President of the National Union of Students (NUS), during Last week’s NUS National Conference in Brighton where allegations of…
Three of Sussex’s delegates for 2016’s National Union of Students (NUS) conference are publicly backing a candidate, Malia Bouattia, who has been asked to explain her "extremely…
Photo: Dan Green This year the National Union of Students (NUS) is holding its National Conference in Brighton, and the Badger has sent Dan Green and me…
President of the Students’ Union Abraham Baldry and Welfare Officer Rianna Gargiulo have clashed over the future of the presidency. Gargiulo, supported by some members of the…
#StudentStrike: WTF is going on? On the 10th of September the National Executive Council (NEC) of the National Union of Students (NUS), which represents around seven million…
The grant of The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will experience a cut of 13 percent this year. This is because the government will be…
A recent National Union of Students (NUS) report has shown that the number of academic staff in universities across the country has fallen by an average of…
The Vice-President of the NUS has criticised Nick Clegg for allowing members of his party to recruit unpaid interns despite his pledge to abolish unpaid placements. In…
This Autumn the Higher Education Academy has launched The Student-Led Teaching Awards scheme, together with NUS. This award scheme gives students the chance to define “good teaching”…
[caption id="attachment_11610" align="alignright" width="368" caption="Milliband at recent party conference Photo: guardian.co.uk"][/caption] The issue of tuition fee increases remains active, as the Labour Party proposes cutting the coalition…
Three Birmingham university students were arrested on Friday 16 September after hanging a banner outside the Liberal Democrat conference which read “Traitors not welcome, Hate Clegg, Love…
A recent National Union of Stu- dents (NUS) study has revealed that the difference between student expenditure and government funding has increased to £8,037 per student for…
The Brighton University Students’ Union (BUSU) has voted to discontinue its affiliation with the National Union of Students (NUS) for the rest of the academic year. The…
Liam Burns has been elected the 55th president of the National Union of Students (NUS). He is due to take office on the 1 July and will…
[caption id="attachment_10568" align="alignleft" width="345" caption="Does responsibility lie with the students to consider carefully before nominating ourselves as a delegate? "][/caption] Here at radical Sussex, racism, homophobia, sexism…
The recent Students’ Union full-time officer elections at the University of Essex resulted in protests on campus after the winners were disqualified. On 11 February, the whole…
[caption id="attachment_10340" align="alignleft" width="259" caption="Photo: Polina Belehhova"][/caption] Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, Norman Baker was egged after giving a talk on the University of Sussex campus on…