I am ecstatic that Britain is finally seeing the Tory party for who they are really: out of touch politicians who have no idea of the struggle of the working man.

The coalition's social mobility tsar has condemned the controversial scrapping of the education maintenance allowance, the grants which enabled poor t...

The headline in Scotland has always been that we've kept tuition fees off the table, and there is no sign of the political winds changing that. But for NUS Scotland, putting money in students' pockets to keep them in education has always been of just as much importance as fighting tuition fees.

This is not a good time to be a student in college or university. Stories about soaring youth unemployment and scarce opportunities for graduates pepper the news bulletins. Ours is a generation with less of an idea of how our lives will pan out than any before us. No wonder we feel cheated.

Ken Livingstone has promised to bring back the EMA to encourage disadvantaged students to stay on at school if he is reinstated as London's mayor in M...

Teenage students from poor backgrounds are being forced to drop out of college because the Government's replacement for the Educational Maintenance Al...

An increasing number of students are considering prostitution to fund their education amid soaring costs, an NUS officer has warned. In an intervie...

The government "misjudged" the scale of support needed for students affected by the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), an educati...

A lot of questions hang over the next academic year. And while I can't say I'm feeling optimistic, there is also hope in the discussions that are taking place. There was hope in the occupations and on the marches. And while the corridors of the university might be oh so quiet, UCU members are being balloted on industrial action.