Two years after a massive UK student movement broke out in protest of austerity cuts and the rising costs of education, young protesters have once again taken to the streets to remind the world that their problems have not disappeared.
Roughly 10,000 students marched through London Wednesday, organized by the National Union of Students (NUS), in the first national student protest since parliament voted to allow drastic tuition and fee increases for students, in the name of austerity, two years ago.
The protests of November 2010 drew 50,000 students in London and resulted in the student occupation of Conservative Party offices in Millbank, London, along with widely documented police brutality.
"Education should open doors, but the government is slamming them shut," said the NUS leader, Liam Burns.
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