student protest

  • Simon Hughes appointed advocate for access to education
    05th January 2011

    Having raised eyebrows with his refusal to vote for the coalition government’s controversial tuition fees policy, Simon Hughes has hit the headlines again with his new appointment as advocate for access to education. Is his appointment a genuine effort by Cameron and Clegg to boost input and support for those from underpriveleged backgrounds, or a highly cynical publicity stunt to mollify outraged voters and protesters? And has Hughes himself abandoned his principles by accepting the position?

  • Tuition fee protests: police “breached human rights”
    01st January 2011

    A wave of allegations and legal claims have begun against the Metropolitan police amidst concerns that their heavy-handed treatment of peaceful student protesters was unlawful. Legal experts claim that the use of police violence and the tactic of immediate ‘kettling’ as students demonstrated against higher tuition fees and unversity funding cuts represented a serious breach of their human rights.

  • Police Violence at Tuition Fees Protests
    17th December 2010

    Following the outbreak of violence at the recent tuition fees protests, questions have been raised about the level and necessity of violence used by the Metropolitan Police force against students. Whilst heavy-handed resistance is understandable in the case of the very small number of protesters acting violently themselves, disturbing accounts have come to light describing the brutal treatement of innocent bystanders and peaceful student protesters as well.

  • Tuition Fees Vote Results: The End for Nick Clegg?
    10th December 2010

    As the House of Commons narrowly voted to support the coalition government’s plans to raise university tuition fees in England to £9000, a huge rebellion by members of the Liberal Democrat party signalled deep rifts and disarray. They may have won the vote, but at what political cost to the party’s future, and at what personal price for Nick Clegg?

  • Liberal Democrats and NUS divided over Tuition Fees
    30th November 2010

    As the protests against tuition fees continute, splits have emerged on both sides of the debate, with NUS president Aaron Porter criticised by students for his lack of public support of the protests following small outbreaks of violence at the first march. Meanwhile, prominent Liberal Democrats are calling on Nick Clegg to break from Cameron’s politics and stay faithful to party policy, in a petition for Lib Dem MPs to vote against tuition fee hikes in parliament. The pressure is on.

  • National Student Protests Ignored by Government
    25th November 2010

    In spite of tens of thousands of students organising peaceful protests, sit-ins and demonstrations across the country, the government still refuses to budge on tuition fees. Worst of all, in a cowardly act of self-preservation, the government has chosen to heavily imply that the student protesters are yobbish, ignorant thugs who do not deserve a response, rather than acknowledging or addressing their legitimate concerns.

  • In Defence of the Liberal Democrats
    17th November 2010

    Throughout the coverage of the planned rise in tuition fees and the public reaction to it, the Liberal Democrats have been universally condemned and vilified for their part in forming the government’s education policy. However nobody has stopped to actually consider the facts of the Liberal Democrats’ current political situation, or to acknowledge the steps they have taken to make the government proposals much fairer and more lenient for poorer students and those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

  • Violence erupts at tuition fee protests
    15th November 2010

    Students protesting against the rise in tuition fees have clashed with riot police in a conflict that ended in the demolition of the glass front of the Conservative party headquarters in London. We ask what direction the protests will take next and examine the contradictory reactions to the violence. Though many have condemned the use of violent protest, others have praised the actions of those students prepared to go to any lengths to defend their right to education.

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