As students once again marched across London on Thursday evening, those left in York also showed their discontent by taking to the cobbled streets for a third time. The Yorker was there to cover the march in full:
Now, with the bitter knowledge that the rise in fees will indeed be going ahead, students have already made their determination to keep fighting for afforable university education known. At York University "The Great York Sit-in" continues in the Exhibition Centre, and students around the country are continuing to voice their anger and concerns.
The vote in Parliament may have passed yesterday, but student opposition does not look like it's going to relax anytime soon.
Video - Filmed and Edited by James Arden. Interviews by Lauren McGinty.
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comment deleted by the author Got to feel sorry for the younger kids who know they won't be able to afford university now.
Seems a shame this march seemed to manifest as an anti-Tory/Coalition rage. Every political party would have put forward the same bill, Labour commissioned the Browne report and to all extents approved it's findings etc.
Can we have a debate and protest about education cuts without it being co-opted by Labour, trade unions and opposition against different spending cuts in general? Surely doing so alienates a large number of students and some popular support otherwise, I certainly know it has for me
I wouldn't say it's been co-opted by those opposing other cuts, or trade unionists. Those that gathered for the York march were almost exclusively students, protesting directly against higher education cuts.
And surely the protest would to some extent become directed against the Tories/Coalition, as they are the incumbents, and it is therefore they who have the power to make changes. A protest against the "notion" of educational cuts isn't as relevant as one against the actual cuts being made by the current government. A great deal of the "rage" was directed at Nick Clegg for reneging his previous stance on cuts in education, so I don't think it can be dismissed as simply anti-Tory ranting.
If you genuinely feel alienated by this, I would therefore think you were in a very small minority.
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