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Comment: Protesting students should ignore the baton round scare story

Protesting students should ignore the baton round scare story

If students are afraid that they're going to be shot at by police, they may reconsider attending the protest at all.

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Don't get violent, tuition fee protesters told

Last year's tuition fees protests quickly turned violent

Universities minister David Willetts has appealed to tuition fee protesters to avoid violence in Wednesday's upcoming protest.

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Tuition fees funding gap opening up

Larger number of £9k courses could cost govt hundreds of millions

Further cuts may be necessary to address an emerging funding problem with tuition fees, MPs have said.

Universities keen on £9k tuition fees

Will higher tuition fee charges effectively shut the doors for poorer students?

Enthusiasm among most universities to charge higher tuition fees than ministers had expected is set to exacerbate coalition tensions over the policy.

Cable 'plotted court challenge' against coalition

Not so saintly any more

Business secretary Vince Cable encouraged colleges to mount a legal challenge against the government, it has emerged.

New student protest set for January

The last four student protests have seen bad-tempered exchanges between demonstrators and the police

Central London will be the scene of more student protests next month, as organisers plan another demonstration against tuition fees.

Video: Tuition fee protest footage

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Comment: The betrayal of higher education

Yesterday's vote saw MPs put political calculation far above the future for students - which now appears grim indeed.

The week in politics: What happens when promises are broken

A minor kerfuffle takes place in Westminster

It's as if the Liberal Democrats decided to conduct some sort of elaborate experiment. What actually happens when a party decides to break its word?

Tuition fee rebels slash coalition majority

Police defend parliament as Commons vote approaches

The government has won the tuition fees vote, but its majority has been slashed from a notional 84 to just 21.

MPs agonise in tuition fees debate

Intense five-hour debate cranked up the tension before the tuition fees vote

An angry and emotional five-hour debate in the Commons preceded the crunch vote on tuition fees.

Decision time on tuition fees

Would-be rebels face huge pressure from student protests today

The coalition government is undergoing its biggest test since its inception, as protestors march through London while MPs debate tuition fees.

Universities must charge £6,863 'to survive'

Jesus College, Cambridge: Even universities at the top end of the scale may have to charge over £6,000, say the UCU

The government's plans to cut higher education funding will mean that tuition fees of nearly £7,000 will be the norm rather than the exception, a union warns.

Video: Nick Clegg on tuition fees

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Tuition fees sketch: Carnage in the Commons

No let-up in heckling as Cable struggled on

Vince Cable and co clung on grimly as the anger of a tumultuous, chaotic, unruly Commons swirled all around.

Tuition fees: Experts call plans 'progressive' - but rebels unmoved

Westminster is awash with manouvres ahead of tomorrow's vote

Plans to treble tuition fees are actually more progressive than the current system, experts have found.

Blistering PMQs as Cameron and Miliband clash on tuition fees

Ed Miliband and David Cameron go head-to-head one day before arguably the most crucial Commons vote so far in this parliament

David Cameron and Ed Miliband delivered their angriest and most colourful PMQs yet, as the two party leaders clashed on tuition fees.

Tuition fees: Third of English universities 'at risk'

The effect of university cuts will extend far beyond the campus, claim the UCU

The government's plans for higher education will see universities facing "an era of survival of the fittest" as they deal with huge financial risk, a union has warned.

Analysis: Tuition fees vote is on the brink

Even MPs' dreams are haunted by the tuition fees dilemma

Nothing is certain when it comes to Thursday's tuition fees vote, as ministerial brinkmanship clashes with the genuine dismay of government backbenchers.

Once more, with feeling: Student protests continue

Organisers will be hoping to avoid the violence which marred last week's mass demostration

Students will show their displeasure at cuts and tuition fees in a symbolic act of protest later today, as demonstrators head to Conservative offices in North London.

Left-wingers play down graduate tax split

Graduate tax split between Alan Johnson and Ed Miliband 'not worth worrying about'

The graduate tax is too similar to the government's tuition fees proposals to warrant a major political dispute within the Labour party, left-wingers have claimed.

Students raise the temperature in war with Lib Dems

The NUS' campaign against tuition fees looks set to enter the political arena directly

Lib Dems who vote through a rise in tuition fees will be systematically targeted at the ballot box, Aaron Porter has told politics.co.uk.

Comment: Wednesday's violence won't hijack students' message

Aaron Porter is president of the National Union of Students

The mindless violence that marred last week's protest shouldn't detract from the powerful message students sent to the government.

Aftermath: Tuition fee fallout continues

In the 30 Millbank foyer as the protest drew to a close

Police, students and the Liberal Democrats are taking stock after Wednesday's tuition fees protests.

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