MORE than 500 Merseyside students were today set to descend on Parliament to protest about funding cuts and a rise in university tuition fees.
Ten coaches of students from all three of Liverpool’s universities, Ormskirk’s Edge Hill university and Chester University plus representatives from the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and Liverpool Community College were scheduled to head down to London at 5.30am this morning.
They will join up with 15,000 students nationally expected to take part in a midday march to Parliament.
The march is part of a national day of protests organised by the National Union of Students and The University and College Union against higher education funding cuts and a change in the cap on university tuition from £3,290 to £9,000 a year which is set to come into force in 2012.
Protesters include Josh Wright, leader of the University of Liverpool’s students union, who said: “This clearly demonstrates the level of aggrievement.”
