Students

As students occupy an unused building at the University of Manchester, we speak to photographer Marc Vallée who finds precedent in the Millbank Tower protests a decade ago.

DJ and journalist Ash Lauryn speaks to Waajeed about Detroit’s new music school, which is inspired by the radical techno collective, Underground Resistance.

Student halls across the UK are being put into lockdown, leaving thousands of freshers cooped up in box rooms, isolated from family, and watching sub-par online lectures. We go inside Manchester Metropolitan, one of the universities worst affected by the crisis, in search of signs of life – and of protest.

Founder Bolanle Tajudeen – who also coined the #ualsowhite social hashtag – is on a mission to share the rich history of Black and POC culture with the masses via a series of affordable, short online courses.

This year’s art school students have produced some pretty Fine Art, overcoming the Covid Iron Curtain that stood between them a proper send off – a grad show. But now they face their harshest critic: the boss’s daughter, Paloma Gonsalves.