LSE Board Backs Tuition Fees At £8k
The London School of Economics board has rejected tuition fees at £9k, potentially making an LSE degree the cheapest in town.
The London School of Economics board has rejected tuition fees at £9k, potentially making an LSE degree the cheapest in town.
Imperial College is the first university in England to confirm they are charging the full £9,000 a year tuition fees.
After a largely peaceful afternoon of demonstration, today’s student protests have become more confrontational. The most serious flashpoint came as protesters exiting Parliament Square towards Victoria Street found themselves corralled in by police lines. The mood turned particularly ugly after a group of around ten …
Update on the latest student protests, sit-ins and teach-ins from around town.
4.30pm update: According to Sky News, eight arrests have been made during the protests. Six have been treated for injuries, and two police officers have been taken to hospital. 3pm update: Large numbers of students have convened on Whitehall, where things have turned violent. The …
Photo by Selenaaaaa from the Londonist Flickr pool Apparently the government have been surprised at how little public opposition there’s been so far to their programme of austerity cuts. Well, yesterday, as thousands of student protesters laid siege to the Conservative party offices, smashed windows, …
Photo by hayjane The NUS estimates over 50,000 people are protesting in central London right now. Students and lecturers are marching over plans to increase tuition fees to up to £9k a year from 2012, and remove government funding from some courses entirely. The Guardian’s …