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Student politics

September 2016

  • NUS President Malia Bouattia. Photo by Linda Nylind. 12/9/2016.

    The G2 interview
    NUS president Malia Bouattia: ‘Political activists are being demonised’

    After becoming the first black woman NUS president, Bouattia was vilified for comments that some considered antisemitic, and branded an Isis sympathiser. The real problem, she says, was that people just couldn’t handle her radical views. So why does Decca Aitkenhead end up shouting at her in frustration?

June 2016

  • Simon Blake

    Charity leadership
    NUS chief executive: if people want to scrutinise me, so be it

  • Student protest in November 2015

    Guardian Students
    Student politics has a fight on its hands. We will only win by working together

    Shelly Asquith

May 2016

  • The NUS demonstrates against student loans in 2002.

    Trouble on campus: Is the NUS beyond repair?

    The election of Malia Bouattia as NUS president has prompted branches around the country to hold votes on whether to leave the union, which is facing an unprecedented challenge to its credibility
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Why we all need student politics

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    Some campus movements can seem rife with the political correctness of a hypersensitive authoritarian. But students have a crucial role in progressive politics

    • NUS under pressure as students vote to break away

    • Guardian Students
      Boris, Tatchell, Greer: were they actually no-platformed?

    • What’s the NUS for, if not for changing the world?

      Peter Scott

April 2016

  • Malia Bouattia, president-elect of the National Union of Students, on Channel 4 News.

    Now cloisters of Cambridge echo to sound of battle over Israel and ‘Zionism’

  • Malia Bouattia, the NUS president

    Zionism, racism and the new NUS president Malia Bouattia

  • An NUS #GenerationVote poster with Malia Bouattia

    I’m the new NUS president – and no, I’m not an antisemitic Isis sympathiser

    Malia Bouattia
  • Malia Bouattia

    New NUS president accuses media of printing falsehoods

  • Students threaten break with NUS after election of new president

  • Malia Bouattia's election as NUS president proves deeply divisive

  • NUS president must address concerns over antisemitism, say Jewish students

  • Guardian Students
    Students vote to sabotage plans to rate teaching in universities

  • NUS elects first female black Muslim president after tense contest

March 2016

  • A demonstrator holds a placard during a refugees welcome march in London, Britain March 19, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall

    Students change the world
    A student guide to campaigning for refugees

    From setting up English classes on campus to teaming up with local organisations, here’s how you can help
  • Crowd covering ears

    Student protests: are young people too sensitive these days?

    Safe spaces and no-platform policies have come in for media ridicule. But a more nuanced debate is taking place on university campuses
  • south african student protest

    South Africa's student protests have lessons for all universities

    The uprising has specific roots in apartheid and colonialism. But issues of race, identity, fees and unemployment are provoking unrest across the world
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