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Students Protest against Higher Fees
By TSF at November 9, 2011 | 3:07 am | 0 Comment
Thousands of students will today descend on London to participate in a demonstration against the coalition government’s decision to increase student tuition fees to £9000 from 2012. The protest which is being organised by the University of London Union and the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts is expected to attract 10,000 people from universities across the more...
Labour: Reaching Out
By TSF at January 24, 2011 | 8:17 am | 0 Comment
Young people are increasingly becoming more and more apathetic towards politics, and it is no wonder. With broken promises from politicians (of all sides) and what we are seeing from this Conservative led government young people are turning away from politics. Young people who in particular voted for the Liberal Democrats in May because of their promise to abolish tuition more...
The Cenotaph Thug
By TSF at December 11, 2010 | 4:53 pm | 7 Comments
The protests on Thursday which left London a mess, and casualties on both sides (Students and Police) also witnessed one certain young man climbing onto the Cenotaph near Downing Street, holding onto the British Flag. That young man was Charlie Gilmour who is the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. Charlie who is aged 21 and attends Cambridge University issued an more...
RIP Lib Dems 1988-2010
By TSF at December 9, 2010 | 11:27 am | 3 Comments
Could today be the day the Liberal Democrats die? Might sound daft but if Liberal Democrat MPs vote for the increase in tuition fees then it's a possibility. Remember they campaigned and signed pledges at the general election to vote against any increase in tuition fees, in fact their policy was to abolish tuition fees. Fair enough with the economy how it is you can't more...
Demo 2010 Part 2
By TSF at November 24, 2010 | 2:39 pm | 0 Comment
Thousands of students are today hitting the streets to protest against the coalition government's plans to increase the tuition fees limit to £9000. The Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg urged students to call off the protest saying that he will defend the government policy even though it isn't the policy he campaigned for, speaking more...
Student Protest: #Demo2010
By TSF at November 10, 2010 | 6:26 pm | 1 Comments
It started off as a peaceful protest organised by the NUS (National Union of Students), some 50,000 students and lecturers from right across England travelled to London to protest at the increase in university tuition fees which will mean only those from middle class families would be able to go to university. However the peaceful demonstration ended as something very more...
Uni Fees: The New Politics?
By TSF at November 4, 2010 | 4:53 pm | 1 Comments
We all kind of knew it was going to happen, after recommendations from the report by Lord Browne, the government have announced that tuition fees in England and Wales will treble to £9000 a year. At the moment Universities charge £3290 a year, but that cap is to be lifted meaning hundreds of thousands of university students will graduate with debts of around £40,000. more...
The True Cost of Higher Education
By TSF at October 29, 2010 | 2:13 am | 3 Comments
The cost to Higher Education in the current comprehensive spending review (CSR) seems to have been buried in the post CSR debate, overshadowed by the draconian cuts to housing benefits. Nevertheless, rest assured they are there and they will hurt! It’s obvious that the gluttonous Lib Dems have done a complete U-turn on tuition fees and have backed the Conservatives in more...
Liberal U-Turn over Tuition Fees
By TSF at October 24, 2010 | 1:19 pm | 0 Comment
Tuition fees were introduced in 2004 for students in England by the then Labour government and capped at £3290 a year. There's no doubt record numbers of young people are now choosing to go to University. As we have seen in the government spending review and from the report by Lord Browne, Universities could charge as much as they wanted for the cost of the course, more...
The Spending Review Nears
By TSF at October 19, 2010 | 1:55 pm | 0 Comment
In less than 24 hours, we will know where the cuts will be and how they are about to change life in Britain for many years to come. Tomorrow the Chancellor, George Osborne will outline in the government spending review just how much will be cut from each government department and what it will mean for you as a taxpayer. It is already expected that 8% is to be cut from more...
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