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The recent USS Pension Strike in the UK has revealed the ways in which private firms profit from higher education and how the marketisation of education is turning both universities and students into debtors.

No 23: Welfare to Debtfare: Who benefits from the marketisation of higher education in the UK?

March 26, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Antonios Roumpakis The recent strike over the University Superannuation Scheme (USS) exposed how university finances are undermined by the continuing marketisation of higher education. […]

No 8: Universal Credit: A benefits system to increase debt

December 6, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Steve Iafrati Narratives explaining poverty as caused by personal failings and poor decisions are nothing new. The characterisation of the likeable but foolish Mr […]