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Posts Tagged ‘demo2010’
Diary of a disadvantaged student: the debate
Posted in Politics, Student issues, tagged Conservatives, demo2010, education maintenance allowance, higher education cuts, intelligence squared, Policy Exchange, students, tuition fees, university on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Students! Don’t lose your head in all the protest hype
Posted in Politics, Student issues, tagged coalition government, Conservative party, demo2010, higher education cuts, Liberal Democrats, protest, riot, students, tuition fees, university, walkout on November 14, 2010 | 6 Comments »
More protests and demonstrations are planned for later this month, which is great. You may be involved in the planning of something along those lines. Perhaps you’ve even seen this facebook event, that recommends students to ‘walk out of your school, college or university’ in protest to education cuts. Earlier this week, about 40 Manchester [...]
So- what exactly happened at #Demo2010?
Posted in Politics, Student issues, tagged Aaron Porter, Conservative party, Conservatives, David Cameron, demo2010, Liberal Democrats, London, Millbank, national union of students, Nick Clegg, NUS, protest, riot, student protests, students, tuition fees, UCU, university on November 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I couldn’t tell you what happened at Millbank yesterday- I wasn’t there. I and other UCLan students were due to catch our coach back to Preston at 3.30pm- in fact, many students had been coached down to London as part of their student unions. None of us had time to hang around in London burning things. But [...]
Diary of a disadvantaged student: starting below zero
Posted in Politics, Student issues, tagged Conservatives, David Cameron, demo2010, higher education, Liberal Democrats, national union of students, Nick Clegg, NUS, spending cuts, spending review, students, top up fees, tuition fees, UCU, university, Vince Cable, wewillmarch on November 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Recently, much has been made of disadvantaged students in the press. I’m not ashamed to say I’m one of them- currently, I receive the maximum maintence loan and grant payments from the student loans company. I received £60 combined from each parent on the very first day of uni, and made my own way from there. I’m [...]
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