Students Protests - University Fees

[EggFriedRice]

I absolutely applaud the protests by young students against the rise in university fees, why should they put up with the blatant lies by the Liberal Democrats, I voted for them, I believed what they told me during the run up to the election, now I feel betrayed, like so many other voters, how could they say one thing and then do the opposite? I witnessed today a demonstration by ordinary young people who will be affected by the increase in university fees, I witnessed the heavy police presence, the batons ready to charge, the police filming ordinary young people who have been betrayed, I witnessed the sad state of the UK,

I t5hink using Marxism is the only way to understand the situation. And it is outrageous to parallel Marxism and Fascism - as if some sort of liberalism or whatever you think is in the middle of them is the right way to go. A very naive view of politics indeed.

telsa - you do realise the tiered system you describe is very much in place already. Working class students who go into HE are already highly likely to study at a lower ranking university and take a more vocational or practical subject than a middle or upper class student.

This is because, on average, a working class student will have:

Attended a less good school
And have lower A'level grades
Had inferior careers advice.
Mimimum financial support from home and will want to maximise their chance of working after graduation.

Maybe the increase in tuition fees will worsen this - but it's so far from being the Marxist ideal - it's hard to see how it could.