University students have been treated with contempt. They are ready to revolt

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'The Government divests itself of duty as much as possible, too. Universities are businesses now. Not national ivory towers. Sorry, not our problem guv' | Writes lambertvictoria

In these lockdown times, we won’t see students storm the barricades around York, Exeter, Bristol and Aberystwyth. Or, due to the legislation enacted under the Coronavirus Act 2020, stage sit-ins at Aston and Brunel, De Montfort and Edge Hill. Who would be surprised, however, were students to turn off their screens for a single day en masse, blacking out the very notion of university education while trapped at home across an increasingly dispirited country. Not me.

 

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