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Hundreds of students protest at London School of Economics

Thursday, 19 March 2015 7:28 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 19 March 2015 7:30 PM ]

LSE students angry over tuition fees

Students of Britain’s one of the top educational institutions, the London School of Economics, have staged an angry demonstration against tuition fees.

Several hundred students gathered at the university premise where a group of activists have already occupied an administration room for two days. The protesters chanted "LSE should be free" and "free education now".

Some 300 students have also held an unauthorized protest organized by a group calling itself Occupy LSE. They have barricaded themselves in one of the buildings.

The Occupy LSE movement is also demanding the free education and calling for tuition fees to be scrapped.

“An education that is liberating which does not have a price tag", the group said.

Student fees are a highly sensitive political issue in Britain, which is going for general elections in little over one month time.

In the last elections, Liberal Democrats promised a slice in tuition fees which was introduced in the country back in 1998. But the coalition government led by Prime Minister David Cameron has trebled them to up to $13,000 per year, breaking a pledge by junior partners.

The LSE specializes in political science and economics and has a long history of student demonstrations. Some of the alumni of this pioneer institution include Mick Jagger, John F. Kennedy and Karl Popper.

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