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Today is national voter registration day. It is an opportunity for all of us to make sure friends, neighbours and colleagues are all signed up to vote and have their voice heard. The electoral register is at the heart of our democracy. It is the mechanism by which we...

This autumn marks the 50th anniversary of a seminal inquiry into the future of education. The Robbins review's famous conclusion, that ‘university places should be available to all who are qualified for them by ability and attainment’, heralded a huge expansion: just...

It’s nearly three years since the huge student protests against the rise in tuition fees in England to £9,000 a year. From the outside looking in, it may look as though the student movement has calmed and is resigned to the idea of paying more than ever for the...

When I tell people that I am an officer in the National Union of Students, nine times out of 10 they roll their eyes. The normal response is usually that student politics is about a bunch of political wannabes playing politics, arguing over nothing and that it’s a...