THOUSANDS OF LECTURERS AND STUDENTS MARCH IN PROTEST.

THIS morning, thousands of lecturers and students will march across London over plans to treble tuition fees in England by 2012.

THE National Union of Students have organised 'the students in red' day of marching in order to abolish such appaling thoughts on increasing tuition fees.

Aswell as defeating proposed student fees, the NUS is also calling for a national bursary system. This will ensure that support is given depending on how much students need the money, rather than what university they are based at.

"Currently tuition fees stand at £3,290, to increase this to a further £9,000 would be outrageous," claims Neda Keyhani, a second year business student from The University of Portsmouth. 

As many current students would agree, university fees are already a struggle to deal with. To then treble such fees would not only cut the amount of students applying to university, it would also inevitably hit new students from middle-income families at a time when they are struggling to cope with the impact of the credit-crunch.

If the 'march' around the streets of London has any effect, MP's who will vote for an increase in tuition fees by the end of the year, will today feel copous amounts of pressure forced upon them by the NUS. 


Rheannon Sandell