Over the past year, COVID has shone a spotlight on the rotten core of our education system, making it painfully clear to students everywhere that - in a marketised university system - fees and rent matter more than education and welfare. Thousands of students mobilised in response, launching strikes, protests and occupations. Join student left coalition RSM and voices from across HE for this participatory workshop to develop a coherent plan that locates the student movement within wider struggles.
Ben is an architectural worker and co-researcher helping to prepare the Wards Corner Community Plan.
Red Square Movement (RSM) is a coalition of UK university student organisers.
The University and College Union (UCU) represents over 130,000 academics, lecturers, trainers, instructors, researchers, managers, administrators, computer staff, librarians and postgraduates in universities, colleges, prisons, adult education and training organisations across the UK.