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Roni Size for National Union Of Students demonstration 14 November 2000
Tickets to the post-demonstration concert, limited to 4,000, are £3.70—the UK’s minimum hourly wage which many students earn while working to pay recently instituted tuition 'top-up' fees. The concert caps a day of demonstrations starting 11 am at London’s Kennington Park, where mayor Ken Livingstone, NUS president Owain James, member of Parliament Evan Harris, and others will address demonstrators and the media. The National Union of Students, representing all higher education students in the UK, are calling for • The restoration of targeted grants to encourage potential students from poor socioeconomic backgrounds into higher education without the fear of huge graduate debt. • The abolition of tuition fees in order that education may be free at the point of entry, does not discriminate against those who cannot afford to pay, and does provide entry on purely academic criteria. • Protection against the threat of differential or top-up fees so that the quality of a student’s education is not determined by an ability to pay and that higher education is not divided by the creation of an expensive elite. | National Union of Students (UK) | | Demonstration, concert info | | NUS/USI (Northern Ireland) | | Roni Size | | discography | | top of page | |
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