The road to £9,250 fees
Looking back over the past two decades, the history of student fees is starting to look like a relay race.
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Capitalism's railway carousel
The capitalist carousel that now typifies Britain’s railways continues as London Midland loses the franchise to operate routes across the region’s network.
Hilton vote of confidence
Hilton will open 30 hotels over the next two years. Britain is its second largest market outside the US.
Fight the fees? There’s no time like the present
Students facing a working lifetime of debt are up against the clock. They must use their time at university to demand the abolition of tuition fees – and force their vice-chancellors to join them in the fight…
Paying the price of the European Union
It’s become a mantra, endlessly repeated by the TUC: “Workers must not pay the price of Brexit.” What price would that be? And how about acknowledging the price of staying in the EU?
Migration and control
We’ve had a government policy paper over free movement. But we still need clarity…
Brexit: re-start the campaigns
25 August 2017
Sections of the establishment are regrouping to prevent a clean departure from the EU. Once again working people will have to put real pressure on the political class of Britain.
Start the skills upgrade now
Instead of plugging skills gaps by sucking in people from abroad we have to create and implement a long-term plan for our future that develops streams of skilled people for industries, energy, transportation, services and health care
At last - a strategy for shipbuilding
There was a time when the term “industrial strategy” would simply bring sneers from government. The vote to leave the EU has changed all that. The first clear product is a plan for Britain’s shipbuilding industry…
Government scraps electrification plans
Beset by EU-dictated cost rises, the transport secretary is cancelling a raft of plans to extend electrification across the rail network. The move has sparked fierce opposition, and not a little ridicule…
Research and division
British universities have been doing well out of EU funding – but at a cost for everyone else…
NHS pay battle falters
More and more staff at Barts Health are seeing the importance of protecting Agenda for Change rates…