The Higher Education sector is in a state of unprecedented crisis.

Universities institutions face financial collapse. Rocketing COVID cases on campuses have resulted in spiralling accommodation lock-downs. All the while, financial risks worsened by the crisis are being transferred to individuals: staff and students.

Covid has thrown a spotlight onto the deep flaws of our higher education system - a system that has become increasingly marketised through years of disastrous neoliberal capitalist education reforms.

Since universities and colleges have become increasingly financially dependent on private finance and tuition fee income, we've seen university management attempt to fill funding gap by pushing student recruitment, and locking students into accommodation contracts they now cannot escape.