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Report from The Peter Symonds College Walkout

By Callum Williamson. Students at Peter Symonds College in Winchester had been preparing for weeks to take part in the national wave of action against hikes in tuition fees, the scrapping of EMA (a particularly unpopular move amongst college students) and cuts to education in general. For two weeks beforehand there were meetings of 50 students, ...

Rebellion Growing at John Roan Sixth Form

Over 80 students crammed themselves in the learning centre of the John Roan Sixth Form, Greenwich today to hear eye witness accounts from students who marched alongside education workers last Wednesday on the massive demo against tuition fee increases. Students are in uproar at the prospect of being saddled with debts of over £44, 000 ...