It’s been a tough time for students. Not just in the last few years, but for decades now.
The forcing of universities to compete through league tables, the introduction of tuition fees and the reliance on international students for income has turned students into walking pound signs and universities into businesses – instead of places for enriching the knowledge of our country.
Students have been consistently exploited by landlords, losing out on quality teaching due to staff on precarious work and increasing student to staff ratios, and all this to be dumped with tens of thousands of pounds in debt.
The recent cost-of-living crisis has not just been a one-off short-term event, it is merely just the peaking of a longer crisis that has existed in this country and for students. It has wreaked havoc throughout the student body, impoverishing many.
