Showing posts with label student unrest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label student unrest. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
THE NEW YORK TIMES: LONDON (Reuters) — The British police have warned students not to use violence in demonstrations on Tuesday against a planned increase in tuition fees, after clashes during two previous days of protests.
Organizers are calling for university and secondary school students to take to the streets in what they are calling a “national day of action” against plans by the Conservative-led coalition government to almost triple tuition, up to $14,500 a year.
“November 30 will see even more students come out on protest across the country,” the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts said in a statement. The organizers said that about 24,000 had promised to participate.
Protesters smashed windows and started fires at the building housing the Conservative Party’s headquarters in London during a march this month, and scuffles and vandalism took place in London during protests last week. >>> Reuters | Monday, November 29, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
SKY NEWS: More Violence Erupts At Student Protests: Students have smashed up a police van and there have been sporadic skirmishes during a series of major demonstrations against tuition fees. >>> Andy Winter and Rob Cole, Sky News Online | Thursday, November 25, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
SKY NEWS: Students have smashed up a police van in London and there have been sporadic skirmishes during another violent demonstration against student fees.
Police moved to contain the demo by using the controversial "kettling" tactic - meaning large numbers of people could be held in one place for several hours.
But the Metropolitan Police has now said the policy has shifted to one of "controlled dispersal". >>> Rob Cole and Andy Winter, Sky News Online | Wednesday, November 24, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, has been advised to stop cycling to Downing Street because of a threat from students angry at his broken tuition fees pledge.
The security warning came ahead of a planned mass protest today which is expected to see thousands of young people around the country targeting Liberal Democrat MPs, including Mr Clegg.
Lib Dems have become the focus of student anger because in the run up to the general election they promised to scrap tuition fees altogether, only to support a substantial increase in rates after entering into a Coalition Government with the Conservatives.
Mr Clegg’s security personnel are understood to have told him that it was no longer safe for him to bicycle from his home in Putney, south west London, to his office in the Cabinet Office, beside 10 Downing Street.
There were fears that the Deputy Prime Minister could be knocked from his bicycle or pelted with objects. >>> Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent | Wednesday, November 24, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Tuition fee protest: why students are turning fire on Liberal Democrats: Thousands of students are preparing to turn their anger on the Liberal Democrats in a demonstration over broken promises on tuition fees. >>> Nick Collins | Wednesday, November 24, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Tuition fee protest: where demonstrations will take place: The Liberal Democrat headquarters will be targeted by thousands of students in a second wave of demonstrations against tuition fee hikes on Wednesday. >>> Nick Collins | Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Lecturers at one of the country’s leading universities were roundly condemned last night for praising students who rioted at Conservative Party headquarters.
Academics at Goldsmiths, University of London, justified the violence by saying it had brought the tuition fees row “media attention across the world”.
In a statement branded “irresponsible” by Downing Street, they said they wished to “congratulate staff and students on the magnificent anti-cuts demonstration”.
It was signed by John Wadsworth, the president of Goldsmiths lecturers’ union, and its secretary Des Freedman, a lecturer in communications and cultural studies.
It also emerged that a lecturer from the University of Sussex who was among the protestors is a prominent member of the left-wing socialist group Revolution, which began planning “direct action” weeks ago. >>> Gordon Rayner and Laura Roberts | Friday, November 12, 2010
Who are the student rioters? >>>
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A student protest against rising tuition fees has turned violent with demonstrators forcing their way into a building and smashing windows as they approached Parliament.
A group barged into the lobby of Millbank before being forced out by police and security officers. They then began setting fire to placards outside the entrance.
Windows in the office block were smashed and a number of smoke bombs thrown.
Up to 50,000 people, many waving placards, are marching though the streets of London in the biggest show of opposition to the Coalition Government.
Students from towns and cities across the UK have travelled to London in coaches, to join lecturers, pensioners and medical trainees in voicing their opposition to the rise. >>> | Wednesday, November 10, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: David Cameron admits tuition fees increase will keep cost to foreign students down: The Coalition’s decision to increase tuition fees by thousands of pounds will help keep down the cost to foreign students of studying in Britain, David Cameron has admitted. >>> Andrew Porter, Political Editor | Wednesday, November 10, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Cost of a degree 'has tripled in 20 years': The cost of a university degree has more than tripled in 20 years as thousands of teenagers are priced out of higher education, according to research. >>> Graeme Paton, Education Editor | Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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