The latest tuition fees blunder shows the need for mass student protest

By Michael Chessum. Of course the new system of fees will cost more to run than the old one, yet Labour and the NUS let the coalition away with it. The revelation that the new tuition fees system – introduced in 2010 in the face of massive student protest – will in fact cost more to run than the old one, should come as a surprise to almost no one who paid attention to the debate over its introduction. A host of organisations and campaign groups warned from the outset that the increase in fees would save the government no money, largely as a result of the large costs of upfront borrowing and the fact that so many students would never earn enough to pay back their debt. Read more...