For a National Education Service
To produce the goods and services we need efficiently and without exhaustion and destruction – to reshape our economy to avoid climate catastrophe – to add beauty to life – to be informed about our social conditions and equipped to debate and decide on them – we need education. Decades of battle by the labour movement have won us universal, free education to secondary level, and even the chance for many young working-class people to go on to university. But the Tories have been stunting that and winding it back. The huge increase in student fees in 2010 has hit older and part-time university...