Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate

Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
  • Home
  • Donate
  • Sign up
  • Right-Wing Watch
  • Reform Watch
  • Columnists
  • About
    • About LFF
    • Write for LFF
    • Advertise with LFF
    • Our complaints policy
    • Privacy
  1. Trending
  2. Labour
  3. Brexit
  4. Nigel Farage
  5. Reform UK

Thank you for supporting independent media

We’re so grateful for your donation and will make sure your money goes as far as possible

Spread the word about us:

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
By clicking 'Sign me up' you confirm that you have read and agree to our privacy policy.

universities

Ignore Amber Rudd – British voters welcome foreign students

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
14 October, 2016

Clear majority believe foreign students have a positive impact, two polls show

Tory plans will hand universities to the market. Students should fight back.

Mark Crawford
17 May, 2016

Higher education is a social good, not a commodity

Comment: Education is a public good, not a product to be bought

Mark Crawford
18 April, 2016

Over the last two decades, the vision of an education system open to all has been battered by rising fees and cuts

Comment: Pay cuts have blighted further education

Sally Hunt
11 November, 2015

No education worker wants to strike but recommendations for a pay freeze were insulting

The ‘Piggate’ allegations highlight the social segregation in higher education

Jill Rutter
23 September, 2015

It is hard to imagine university authorities – or fellow students – at Queen Mary, SOAS or London Met tolerating the vandalism, drunkenness, immaturity, elitism and misogyny of the Bullingdon Club

George Osborne’s master plan for higher education misses the point

Simon Perks
7 August, 2015

Education is not just a product – it can’t run on the logic of the market

The gender pay debate is bigger than Professor Tim Hunt

Ruby Stockham
30 June, 2015

Female professors at Hunt’s university earn £2,200 less than their male counterparts

A fifth of academic staff on casual contracts struggle to put food on the table

Sally Hunt
26 May, 2015

Insecure and exploitative contracts have made their way into universities too

Nottingham Trent University pays 212 of its staff below the living wage

Ruby Stockham
12 March, 2015

UNISON are putting pressure on the university, whose vice-chancellor is the highest paid in the country

UK study finds that 92.4 per cent of university professors are white

Ruby Stockham
3 February, 2015

Race inequality persists at every level of the higher education system, according to equality trust

  • ← Older posts
  • Newer posts →
By clicking 'Sign me up' you confirm that you have read and agree to our privacy policy.