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

Tackling the conundrum of the future's relationship to the present through the prism of digital culture, this year's Transmediale festival strayed into some chaotic philosophical territory. In her review, M. Beatrice Fazi dismisses conceptions of the future as linear effect of the present, instead embracing models of ‘atemporality' and untimeliness

In the wake of a cash crisis and resulting round of savage job cuts, London Metropolitan University has been left reeling, but still standing.