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The Course Cuts: From A Lecturer's Perspective

The Course Cuts: From A Lecturer's Perspective

Luke Lowsley-Williams pitched an article to The SOAS Spirit: a news piece consisting of interviews with lecturers opposing course cuts. His submission ended up being more reportage than news: the story of his journey of changing perspectives, influenced by lecturers affected by the proposed cuts. Luke Lowsley-Williams, BA Social Anthropology

Struggle to End Outsourcing Makes Crucial Win

Struggle to End Outsourcing Makes Crucial Win

Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish The story of the Justice for Cleaners campaign at SOAS is one of broken promises and continued resistance. Running for 9 years, the campaign has sought workers’ rights for the cleaners of SOAS, who have been outsourced to a succession of different companies since

We Need To Talk About Modi

We Need To Talk About Modi

Sparsh Pandya, BA International Relations and South Asian Studies The past year and a half of Narendra Modi’s term as prime minister of India has marked a clear push towards neo-liberal economic policy and an attempt to establish India as a powerful global actor. Within the domestic sphere, welfare

Refugee Scholarships Vague but Hopeful

Refugee Scholarships Vague but Hopeful

Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish On the 25th September, SOAS announced that they would be providing 7 new scholarships for refugees at an undergraduate and postgraduate level in time for the next academic year. Two days prior to the announcement, The SOAS Spirit had published an article containing comments

Amos To Double Cuts, Despite Financial Surplus

Amos To Double Cuts, Despite Financial Surplus

Jonny Morrison, BA Politics In an address to staff on Thursday, SOAS director Valerie Amos had laid out plans to increase cuts to the school budget by 117%, from £3million to £6.5million, by removing post-graduate growth targets and taking into account recruitment for this academic year. This comes a

No Blame for Valerie Amos in Cuts Controversy

No Blame for Valerie Amos in Cuts Controversy

Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish Since last Thursday, a controversy has been raging within the walls of SOAS. Students who shy away from SOAS politics are being brought into the fold with the leak of two documents by an anonymous source within the university, revealing plans to cut at

Students’ Union Refuses to Comply With SOAS Prevent Working Group

Students’ Union Refuses to Comply With SOAS Prevent Working Group

Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish The Students’ Union have refused to comply with a secret working group set up by university administration to explore the implementation of the Prevent strategy within SOAS. As of the 11th of September, the university’s official Prevent strategy claims that SOAS lacks ‘any