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Thursday, July 27, 2017

How students have been misled and lied to for 20 years


By Martin Williams-27 JUL 2017

It has been twenty years since the government first announced its intention to charge students tuition fees.

Back in 1997, the move sparked a day of national protests, with the National Union of Students (NUS) pledging a “full-blooded” campaign to stop the charges.