The Guardian, Student protest over free education expected to draw thousands
This Wednesday, students will take to the streets in another demonstration against tuition fees. This time, however, organisers speculate a huge turnout as we see students becoming increasingly involved in politics. Due to Government policies directly impacting a huge spectrum of the population, from international students to those dependent on grants, organisers suggest there is a ‘resurgent movement of student protest’, further invigorated by Corbyn’s leadership and backing of free education.
What is labelled as a ‘new generation of students’ will help ‘rejuvenate student politics’, said Deborah Hermanns from the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts. Equally exciting is that students are once again waking up to the fact that they can make a difference to their local, national and global environment, whether that difference is to education or other important issues.
The demonstration demands ‘free education funded through progressive taxation, and an end to the scapegoating and deportation of international students’.