Beyond Education Podcast

Katie and Jake from Beyond Education speak to Shiri Shalmy from Antiuniversity Now and Cooperation Town. Antiuniversity Now runs 10-16 September in London and online followed by the Anarchist Bookfair on the 17th. Antiuniversity Now is a collaborative experiment to challenge institutionalised education, access to learning and the mechanism of knowledge creation and distribution. Initiated in 2015, Antiuniversity Now was set up to reignite the 1968 Antiuniversity of London with the intention to challenge academic and class hierarchy and the exclusivity of the £9K-a-year-degree by inviting people to organise and share learning events in public spaces all over the country. https://festival.antiuniversity.org/ https://antiuniversity.org/about/ https://antiuniversity.org/reader/ https://anarchistbookfair.london/ https://cooperation.town/

In this podcast Francesca and Kirsty from Beyond Education (BE) talk to Kadeem, Lili, and Sophia of No More Exclusions (NME). NME is a grassroot coalition whose core focus is the abolition of school exclusions. Their work has been integral in highlighting the racial inequities in school exclusions, and they have released several influential guides for educators, politicians, and publics. Importantly, as part of their praxis they centre the voices of young people and those who have experienced exclusion at all levels of organisation, and it was BE’s privilege of chat to some of those members in this podcast. Visit the NME website here https://nomoreexclusions.com/about/ See here https://nomoreexclusions.com/category/publications/

In this episode, Beyond Education speaks to Liverpool and Goldsmiths University UCU activists about how to win strategic battles against the marketisation of higher education.

In this episode, Beyond Education’s Kirsty Morrin and Dave Ridley speak to Faolan Ingram and his friend Max, two young activists who have been involved in a range of political causes in recent years, such as Kill The Bill - the protest movement aimed at stopping the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. We chat about what is pushing young people to take action with regards to causes they are, more than any other age group, directly affected by, such as climate change, and what forms this politicisation takes today. "We can't afford to be nihilistic about climate change, especially young people, because we are the ones that will be facing all this change" Faolan rightly argues.

In this episode, Beyond Education's Kirsty Morrin and Dave Ridley continue their chat with Esme Flinders, a student at the University of Liverpool, about the UCU strikes, and the importance of radical education, for example teach outs.