Sussex international students appeal for tuition fee reduction in open letter
International students at the University of Sussex have appealed for a reduction to their tuition fees, stating that the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected them. While they acknowledge that university…
NSS yes: Engineering students brush off boycott
Engineering students have chosen not to boycott the National Student Survey (NSS), a University spokesperson confirmed. The spokesperson said: “students within the Engineering department are choosing not to boycott the…
Silencing the student voice: London free education demo
The Free Education Demonstration, which took place in London last Wednesday, attracted a large turnout of student protesters – around 10,000, including many Sussex students – all there for different…
Tuition fee protesters are betraying poor students
Barely a month goes by now, when swathes of central London are not shut down for another mass protest by the eternally entitled hordes of middle-class students who have taken…
Sussex bucks national trend as staff numbers rise again
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 one percent. This…
Labour proposals may cause some students to ‘overpay’ fees
The issue of tuition fee increases remains active, as the Labour Party proposes cutting the coalition tuition fee cap of £9,000 by a third. At the same, the National Union…
What is happening to our universities?
As two undergraduate students who have followed the Government’s plans for higher education over the preceding weeks, we have been appalled by the lack of proper scrutiny both in the…
They say violence but I say vandalism
I am contained, along with hundreds of other students and children, within a police kettling outside the Brighton City Council building for over an hour. After arguing with an officer…
An argument for pragmatism
Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past two months will have been aware of the students march in London last Wednesday. It is of course a…
Students urged to attend demo against £9,000 fees
University students face tuition fees of up to £9,000 per year following the Coalition Government’s unveiling of its plans for higher education last Wednesday. The cap on tuition fees is…
What would it be like if we didn't have to work?
Being a student is a very costly business. 3 years of tuition is going to cost you around £10k, and a maintenance loan is going to double your debt. Brighton…
Higher fees would be too much to overlook
Boy I’m glad I went to university when I did. I figured pretty early on that the debt was inevitable, but had it been anything up to £45,000 allowed by…
Staff and students unite against fee rise in peaceful protest
One hundred and eighty students and members of staff gathered on Library Square last Wednesday, expressing anger at Lord Browne’s proposals to significantly raise the cost of higher education, and…
Are international students commodities?
With their fees exceeding £10,000 a year, the Badger examines the accusation that international students are commodified by the university
Farthing gets it wrong on tuition fees
As the Badger reports this week, Vice-Chancellor Michael Farthing has argued that in order for universities to maintain high standards of education, the tuition fee cap- which currently stands at…
Think-tank calls for tuition fees cap to be abolished
The free market think-tank Reform has recommended that the £3,145 cap on tuition fees be scrapped. Reform’s report, The Mobile Economy, advises removing both the tuition fees cap and all…