Instead, students would not pay a penny during their university education but start paying for the privilege when they are employed, with the amount paid back dependent on income.
The NUS say this would address the risk that students from poorer backgrounds would be priced out of education.
Dannie Grufferty, president of Liverpool Guild of Students, said: “Each year, students put £250m into the local economy and they devote thousands of hours volunteering in their communities and neighbourhoods in over 1,500 organisations. Students are a credit to the region and it is unthinkable that the government would effectively make higher education even more inaccessible, threatening the fabric of the region.”
The protest was followed up with a NUS-organised debate at Liverpool Town Hall.
