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While last summer's strike at Tower Hamlets College is often portrayed as a victory by unions, two of its organisers, B&R, remain critical, and place ESOL at the butt end of the government's chauvinist austerity

While education budgets are cut and university leaders have 'visions' for keeping competitive, Raoul Paled reports from Britain's 'worst performing' university, London South Bank, on staff's muted response to savage budgetary pruning

Already faced with cuts before the crisis, education now looks to be one of the sectors hardest hit, and not merely financially. Kirsten Forkert looks at the current conflict in higher education and the difficulties faced by those trying to protect it

Berlusconi's stinging cuts to state education have encountered strong opposition across Italy. With the credit crunch upending the wider neoliberal project, Paolo Do and Gigi Roggero consider the potential for an expansion of the struggle