University funding will be cut by around half a billion pounds next year alongside new proposals to arrange 2 year fast track degrees in order to cut costs for universities.
While applications rise, the government has a cap on how many people can actually attend an institution, with many universities falling foul of overstepping this [...]
A Jewish man was booed and jeered at during an event entitled “The Case for Sanctions and Boycott” being held at SOAS.
Raheem Kassam, of student anti-racism campaigners Student Rights commented to the BBC: “The overpowering racist jeering as displayed by some audience members at the event is a stark and chilling revelation of what [...]
Updated: It appears this event has created an argument regarding whether the abuse that Jonathan Hoffman encountered was racist, or due to his ideology. There were various other Jewish members of the audience and panel members, who did not encounter similar treatment. While Student Rights make note of this point raised across several blogs, the [...]
Outside parliament a giant picture of Albert Einstein was placed in support of University and College Union’s (UCU) petition against changes to research funding.
The image itself was made up of some of the 18,000 signatories petitioning against proposals by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). The proposed plan by HEFCE is to make [...]
BREAKING (Thursday 17th December) – The Independent last night reported what has now been confirmed as the resignation of governors from the London Metropolitan University, following pressure from HEFCE.
At the meeting on Tuesday, a statement from staff governor, Kay Dudman, was read out. It said: “It is clear that London Metropolitan University’s future and safety [...]
Student Rights has just been informed that the motion proposed by the Queen Mary Stop the War Coalition to twin Queen Mary with the Islamic University of Gaza has now passed.
Passed on Tuesday 8th December at a Student Council meeting the University follows LSE’s decision to twin with the same controversial University. The University itself [...]
Those who follow Student Rights will know that often we write about disruptions and disputes on UK campuses. Recently, our pieces have featured controversial and divisive issues, but today we hope that the bulk of our readers can join us in congratulating the University of Plymouth, as one of many, whose Student Unions are focusing [...]
When campaign group Student Rights heard about the talk it urged Queen Mary student union to cancel it.
The union then discussed the event with the student society that organised it.
A union spokesman said the society’s members were adamant Hizb ut-Tahrir would not use the event to “espouse hateful views”, but decided to find a new [...]
This morning, Student Rights has learned that Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) were to be welcomed onto the Queen Mary campus for an event entitled, “Shariah Law – compatible in the modern world?” This event has now been cancelled.
HT are banned from most university campuses and also from NUS events. However, the Queen Mary Dialogue and Debate [...]
The first event in our ‘We live in a Democracy’ series went off with an academic bang last night at UCL.
The event was a joint venture with UCL Human Rights Society on whether student unions should be taking international political stances drawing upon the Gaza-Israel conflict. The event was spawned through recent actions by LSE, [...]
