Lincoln students' protest over tuition fee fears

Placard-waving students from Lincoln's universities will be staging a protest against tuition fees in one of the city's busiest streets.

The placards, showing the amount they each owe because of higher education debt, will be seen along the High Street on November 5.

The aim is to show the Government how its potential plan of removing the cap on tuition fees could lead to astronomical debts and many young people not being able to afford to go to university.

Bishop Grosseteste University College Student Union vice president Davina Robinson said: "If the fees are uncapped then universities can, in theory, charge what they want.

"It will create a class divide and prestige in universities.

"Students will be choosing universities based on what they can afford and the return they will get."

Kayleigh Turner is the University of Lincoln's vice president, for education.

"We want to raise awareness with students and how it will impact on them. It would affect thousands at Lincoln," she said.

And according to members of the University College's Students' Union, some universities are so sure that the decision will go through that they are already planning what to do with the money.

For more on the protest and the Government's proposals to uncap tuition fees, see Monday's Echo.