Newcastle University strike highlights crisis in UK higher education
A wave of university industrial action signals a deepening crisis in British higher education, driven by market-oriented policies
Kenya’s High Court delivers blow to neoliberal university funding model
Kenya’s high court sided with students and declared the recently proposed higher education funding model unconstitutional
Students take over university buildings in Argentina to demand funding for education
Dozens of faculties have been taken over by university students in Argentina in response to President Milei’s veto of a law to refinance the budget of higher education institutions.
Hundreds of thousands mobilize in defense of public education in Argentina, Milei still vetoes financing law
The national march for education on October 2 was the largest protest to date against Milei’s harsh neoliberal measures, yet the libertarian head of state refused to budge.
Kenya’s students reject new funding model
Kenyan students have been on the streets to protest a new funding model for higher education that they claim limits access to education
Students, professors, and admin workers call for resistance against Milei’s attacks on public universities
Several associations of students and workers in Argentine universities have called on their members and supporters to take to the streets against the plan of Javier Milei’s government to reduce the budget of university institutions.
Serbian student groups protest new state-wide exam to qualify for higher education
The Serbian government is pushing the long pending plan to introduce Državna matura, a new state-wide qualifying exam for high school students to get admission into higher educational institutes
Why 9,000 Rutgers University workers are on strike
The labor struggle has been intensifying in US higher education, as more and more graduate workers and faculty are fighting and winning key demands
Students protest large increase in tuition fees at University of Belgrade in Serbia
Many faculties at the university have decided to increase tuition fees from the autumn session of the academic year 2023-24. The hikes range from 9.1% to 46.8%
Artists across Greece slam presidential decree degrading arts education
Presidential Decree 85/2022, which was endorsed by the conservative New Democracy (ND)-led government, equates graduates of drama schools, conservatories, film schools, and dance schools with high school graduates
Biggest academic strike in US history continues
Postdoctoral employees and academic researchers at the University of California have reached a tentative agreement with the UC system. However, will continue the strike action in solidarity with the 36,000 graduate student employees whose demands are yet to be met
The strike by University of California student workers is entering its third week. What’s at stake?
Over 48,000 student workers are on strike for fair wages, support for parents, job security, and more. On Tuesday, the United Auto Workers, which is organizing the students, announced that the bargaining teams for Academic Researchers and Postdocs had secured tentative agreements
- Brazil approves end to 6×1 work schedule and reduction of the work week to 40 hours
- Israel kills 31 people in Lebanon on the eve of Eid al-Adha
- Israel carries out sixth consecutive Eid massacre in Gaza
- Far-right Janez Janša to return for fourth government term in Slovenia
- With peace deal nearly final, US launches fresh attacks on Iran
