Oxford Education Newswire Archive

In mid-April 2012 a group of students from Oxford Brookes University in the UK started an occupy camp as part of a movement for free education and to demand that the University switch from fee waivers to bursaries. Read more >>

A summary of the fifth day of the Occupy Brookes Movement Read more >>

Occupy Brookes settles in - an update and photos. Read more >>

The occupy camp outside Oxford Brookes Uni started up today amid crazy downpours. Read more >>

OARC Sunday Screenings is back for the New Year with two great films in January and February: the Swedish film Tillsammens showing this coming Sunday, and the excellent and inspiring V for Vendetta showing in February. Read more >>

I dropped in on the folk at Plebs' College 2.0 today to see what they were up to. Read more >>

Plebs' College is open for the new term. Read more >>

The People & Planet Green League 2011 was published today exclusively in The Guardian newspaper, but is now available for all non-Guardian readers to see online. Their league table is the UK’s only comprehensive and independent ranking of universities’ environmental and ethical performance. Read more >>

Oxford’s ivory tower may not often feel the tremors of a thousand students pushing through police lines to protest Vince Cable‘s (non) appearance at the Exam Schools in collusion with the marketisation of higher education in Britain. However, some students at Wadham College have, this past week, renewed a tradition (alive since 2008) of bringing radical ideas into the heart of the ‘dreaming spires’, with the aim of reviving that momentum experienced in the winter of 2010 against the cuts and the Tories’ wider programme of austerity and neoliberal reform. Read more >>

As the County Council on Tuesday voted to cut funding for 36 youth centres, campaigners fighting to save youth services said “this is not over yet.” Read more >>