Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 March 2011

Can newspapers/the media ever be unbiased?


On March 26 2011, over 250,000 people protested in London as part of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) March for the Alternative. Ed Miliband spoke to crowds in Hyde Park, thousands walked through the city passing the Houses of Parliament and through Trafalgar Square in opposition to the governments' fierce cuts. Impressive, honourable, a great achievement some would say.

Monday, 13 December 2010

Government passes tuition fee vote despite student anger

The Government has passed a vote to raise the cap on tuition fees to £9000 per year today despite protests and lobbying by students from Warwick and other universities across the country.


Friday, 5 November 2010

Review confirms drastic cuts to higher education

Tash Clark and Griffin O'Rourke

Universities in the UK will be hit by drastic funding cuts of 40 percent and enormous hikes in tuition fees as part of the government’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) released last week.


Tuesday, 22 June 2010

The Budget

I don't need an inventive title today, we've all been waiting for this. The first budget of the coaltion Con-Lib/Lib-Con/Con-Dem etc etc government was announced today by George Osbourne.