Anyone else fed up with the protests??

ok, so i get why people are upset, but its getting stupid!!
so what people will have to pay more, a degree is worth more than £27,000 anyway!! and an education isnt a right! its something you earn from working hard, and it shouldnt just be handed to you.
i really dont understand why people are so mad. if you want a degree that much you wont care about how much it costs, i sure as hell dont and i am not exactly rich or anything, i come from your average working class family.

We should not allow such reckless protests and there should be an organising body to education those who are ill informed of the tuition fee rise.

Most do. At least in the sense of critical thinking and skills that are demanded in the workplace.

The NUS doesn't represent all students. It, like most unions, is a left-wing organisation, largely in bed with the Labour party as Douglas Murray explained on Young Voters' QT the other day (virtually all NUS leaders, in recent times at least, have gone on to be given safe Labour seats as MPs).
Credit to the students at Reading Uni today who organised a protest against the NUS. Regardless of whose views you agree with, it must be good for our democracy that both sides can be out protesting voicing their views.

I think those who have a valid point should get the focus because all you see in newspapers and on TV are a bunch of dirty anarchists setting fire to things. Personally, I believe the fees are the only way our universities will be able to compete with the likes of US and increasingly China. Also, if your education mattered to you, you would spend whatever it took to further it if you really did want to learn? I think people are forgetting that universities are institutions of learning, not glorified jobcentres.

Personally, I believe the fees are the only way our universities will be able to compete with the likes of US and increasingly China.

I see. But won't it be difficult to pay off that loan especially if you're focusing on getting a mortgage in the future too?

The way I see it at the end of the day =

- Peaceful protest = nothing will change as the goverment won't really have any pressure on them will probably just ignore the protests and things won't change.

- Violent protest = alot more pressure on the goverment, more media attention BUT it is almost impossible that the goverment will change their policy/choice as then every other person/group who becomes unhappy with a potential policy/change will do the same.

An education in my mind is a right.

And a more educated population lends to macroeconmic health in the future.

What annoys me is the amount of police needed to oversee these protests because of a few idiots kicking off. At my uni there had to be one police officer for every protester, as well as police on horseback. I'm sure they have better things to do than babysit a bunch of students whining about Cameron.

Personally, I believe the fees are the only way our universities will be able to compete with the likes of US and increasingly China..

On Newsnight, after the first London protest, Paxman made a good point to the London University Union Leader saying that the show was going to talk about tutition fees - they had booked lecturers, students and politicians in to talk about the protest but because of you we now have to debate the limits of protest because of the violence you caused.

It is people like you that make Britain, the misreble foul smelling garbage heap of a country it is today.

Education is a right and it should be free for all no matter what. The best countries in the world all have free education systems. If Britain carries on with this neoliberal route then we are all screwed.