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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Students in Britain ...wYorkTimes )...</span>
Britain walked out of classes on Wednesday and marched in protest of the government's plans to cut education spending and steeply increase university tuition. It was the second such protest this month.As of early afternoon here, the demonstrations had been mostly peaceful. In central London, though, a crowd surrounded and vandalized a police van, breaking its windows, scrawling graffiti on it and trying to tip it over. A group of protesters repeatedly tried to break through a police cordon in front of Whitehall, which houses many government buildings, even as officers held them back with night sticks.In other cities, including Nottingham, Leeds, Bristol, Sheffield, Warwick and Manchester, university students -- in some cases joined by students from secondary schools who also walked out of class -- marched through town centers or tried to occupy university buildings.The demonstrators were angry at government proposals to help reduce the country's budget deficit by giving less money in direct grants to universities, and allowing the universities in turn to charge tuition of up to $14,400, a year, from the current cap of $5,624.The number of protesters in London was much smaller than it was two weeks ago, when 52,000 marched through the streets and the demonstrations turned violent as the day wore on. The police, sensitive to criticism that they were ill prepared the last time, deployed many more officers and managed to confine the protesters to an area between Parliament Square and Whitehall.http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...57992724243957
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Students in Britain ...wYorkTimes )...</span>
Britain walked out of classes on Wednesday and marched in protest of the government's plans to cut education spending and steeply increase university tuition. It was the second such protest this month.As of early afternoon here, the demonstrations had been mostly peaceful. In central London, though, a crowd surrounded and vandalized a police van, breaking its windows, scrawling graffiti on it and trying to tip it over. A group of protesters repeatedly tried to break through a police cordon in front of Whitehall, which houses many government buildings, even as officers held them back with night sticks.In other cities, including Nottingham, Leeds, Bristol, Sheffield, Warwick and Manchester, university students -- in some cases joined by students from secondary schools who also walked out of class -- marched through town centers or tried to occupy university buildings.The demonstrators were angry at government proposals to help reduce the country's budget deficit by giving less money in direct grants to universities, and allowing the universities in turn to charge tuition of up to $14,400, a year, from the current cap of $5,624.The number of protesters in London was much smaller than it was two weeks ago, when 52,000 marched through the streets and the demonstrations turned violent as the day wore on. The police, sensitive to criticism that they were ill prepared the last time, deployed many more officers and managed to confine the protesters to an area between Parliament Square and Whitehall.http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...57992724243957
