2010-09-07T12:34:01.3869788Zhttp://www.nus.org.uk/en/News/Wes-Streetings-Blog/EPiServer CMS 5http://www.nus.org.uk/en/News/Wes-Streetings-Blog/Dates/2010/1/A-crucial-time-for-the-student-movement/2010-01-21T14:57:17.3230000Z

This year has began with a bang. Over Christmas Lord Mandelson announced more higher education budget cuts. Shrill warnings came from elite universities of the collapse of the British higher education system - with universities making the case that...

http://www.nus.org.uk/en/News/Wes-Streetings-Blog/Dates/2009/10/Calling-all-politicians-Were-taking-over/2009-10-19T09:58:31.9830000Z

This week will see the start of NUS' massive programme of events and activities to mobilise the student vote to take on student fees at the next General Election. Starting off in Liverpool, we're hitting ten major university towns and cities to...

http://www.nus.org.uk/en/News/Wes-Streetings-Blog/Dates/2009/9/I-cannot-remember-the-last-time-I-was-quite-as-angry/2009-09-17T12:37:06.8800000Z

I cannot remember the last time I was quite as angry as I've found myself today. For the past week, I've been fielding lots of press enquiries about the current debacle surrounding delays in the payment of loans and grants. So far, these delays -...

http://www.nus.org.uk/en/News/Wes-Streetings-Blog/Dates/2009/9/Tuition-Fees-the-silence-is-deafening/2009-09-15T10:08:52.7330000Z

Today's editorial piece by Polly Curtis in the Guardian's education supplement is a critical expose of the coded, cosy consensus that exists between Labour and the Conservatives to keep the issue of student tuition fees off the general election....

http://www.nus.org.uk/en/News/Wes-Streetings-Blog/Dates/2009/8/Time-to-think-again-on-fees/2009-08-14T10:04:12.2970000Z

Today the Government published its response to the Downing Street e-petition that was set up to oppose moves by vice chancellors who are calling for the current cap on tuition fees to rise. With a grand total 33, 612 signatures, the petition is...

http://www.nus.org.uk/en/News/Wes-Streetings-Blog/Dates/2009/6/Weve-come-a-long-way-My-journey-to-the-blue-print/2009-06-05T13:46:50.6100000Z

I am really excited to be launching a Blueprint for an alternative higher education funding system. It seems like such a long time - when it was only two years ago that I sat down with my colleagues in NUS and developed a three year strategy for the...

http://www.nus.org.uk/en/News/Wes-Streetings-Blog/Dates/2009/3/NUS-President-Wes-Streeting-leads-the-fight-for-a-fairer-funding-system/2009-03-18T10:00:22.1400000Z

A call to arms to fight the lifting of the cap Today university vice chancellors fired their opening salvo in the upcoming fees debate with a blue print for the lifting of the cap and a BBC survey that reveals that two thirds of them want to raise...