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CREDIT: Getty “They’ve put their bottom line ahead of our welfare”: inside the UK’s student rent strikes Expecting a fresh start, young people across the country are instead stuck indoors, paying for accommodation they can't use. So they've taken matters into their own hands. It’s not been a university experience that would be advertised in any undergraduate prospectus. They may have expected boundless learning, to discover new interests and chase new dreams, but when students were brought back to campus in September, many saw their classes move online within a matter of ...

Last modified on Sun 17 Jan 2021 11.11 EST In 2018-19 Manchester City FC had revenues of £535.2m. Manchester United had £627m. The University of Manchester made more than £1bn – not far short, in other words, of the combined income of the city’s two global sporting brands. This is in many ways a cause for celebration, a sign of the economic power of higher education, of British success in attracting foreign students and the high fees that they pay, of the contribution that universities can make to the prosperity of their host cities. But, for a billion-pound business, you might have ex...

Common Cause 01.13.2021 / 8:59 AM David Vance National Media Strategist (202) 736-5712 dvance@commoncause.org Today, the Common Cause Education Fund is pleased to announce it is a recipient of Lumina Foundation’s racial equity funding program to expand the Student Action Alliance. The Student Action Alliance is a program for students of color that is led by a team of Black millennials. The program focuses on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and students of color at Predominantly White Institutions (PW...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- North Carolina's congressional delegation on Monday predictably took different sides on the new Article of Impeachment submitted by Democrats to Congress on Monday that accuses President Donald Trump of "incitement of insurrection." The article is drawing support from more than 200 Democratic lawmakers, including the longtime congresswoman from Charlotte, Alma Adams. "This is just so egregious what happened," Adams told ABC11. "Members of Congress, our staff, we all could have been killed. I would hope that we never have another person like Donald Trump to try to run f...

"I recognize that the President is a powerful person and that his business, Mar-a-Lago is a daunting target for enforcement," Hardy wrote in an email that included a link to a Twitter post from the party that showed people without masks. "But as far as I know, the law still applies to the President and to his business."  Hardy was a Lake Worth Beach City commissioner before resigning and being elected to the Florida House in November.  Trump left South Florida on Dec. 31 before that evening's Mar-a-Lago event, which featured performers Vanilla Ice and members of the Beach Boys.  A messag...