The recent Browne Report (2010) into the future of British university funding in effect resulted in the almost trebling of annual tuition fees for some British students from 2012 from £3,290 to a minimum of £6,000 and a ceiling of £9,000 per year. It produced a rather startling — if also predictable — public response.
A student-led 50,000-strong protest march in London on 10 November 2010 ended with a small group of the marchers trashing the Conservative Party headquarters, producing front-page news pictures of demonstrators smashing down doors and kicking in windows. More measured student protests followed, encompassing marches, campus sit-ins and internet campaigns as well as proposals for future action. Some academics also wrote to national newspapers in support of the demonstrations.
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