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We had around 250 students today respecting the minute's silence and attending a formal gathering at College with the College sky-pilot, so I think the call by mistahclarke for students to respect the sacrifice's made is a bit hollow. I was dead proud of my lot today.

If you understood sarcasm you would not be digging this hole. I was "told" to argue like an adult so I put a sarcastic reply (on a thread about students demonstrating - ie arguing) about how I would prefer to argue like a student. You came off with a facetious remark about me "not deserving to...

And what were you doing yesterday? A little walk, got to the exiting bit, you came on here all breathless and big bollocks and when it turned nasty you sucked back. I believe that the actions yesterday did more damage to education than nasty old Maggie snatching the milk. The students held...

I think I may be a Merchant of Hate. Then again, as an ex-Military person I probably tick all the boxes that the Red Brigade on here hate!

Could I not argue like a student instead? Start off with a peaceful march and then have a little riot where they all get to join in? Sounds much more fun - and as you and the fellow revolutionaries keep telling us - it gets you noticed, doesn't it? Won't change anything, no matter how much the...

Biscuit would be out of his depth in a puddle.

Can only girls take part then? If it's a BINTFEST I had better let them sort it out.

Once they have finished editing them and recording some nice protest music to go with them. Do you honestly believe that with the massive volume of media there they missed the chance to photo a student or two getting cracked on the head? I imagine the videos will be cropped and modified to...

Yep. Because that will set an interesting precedent won't it? Who can (or can't) use "mob behaviour" to promote outcomes? How about the EDL - surely their mob mentality should promote what they see as a positive policy outcome? Think on...

"Prior to the meeting we decided to write Hands Off Education on the palms of our hands a couple of us wore t-shirts with slogans on them underneath our regular clothes and managed to get past security with them concealed. When Clegg invited the BBC to do a 3 minute panoramic shot of him...

Having seen students with "f***" on one cheek and "Fees" on the other, I seriously wonder what the future will be like. One student comparing it "to the days of Thatcher" when he was not even a twinkle in his dad's ballbag at the time lends no credence to the statements. If you want to do...

Perhaps education should be treated as a commodity once you pass the "compulsory" education brackets. After you have completed compulsory then it becomes optional. Sadly we do see people who try to progress that have no aptitude for study at that time - they sometimes need to mature, to get a...

A job is a job. It pays the same money as a job in a trendy clothing store. Granted, you smell worse after your shift.

To be fair most of my students work full Sat or Sun and half day on the other. They also put in evening hours. Then again, we don't bring them in 5 days a week - they come in three days for full contact time - they get 30 minutes off between half nine and five. No hanging around, no "dead"...

Part time courses - works for the OU. Work and study at the same time, needs some self discipline, but you get tutor contact, quality materials, etc. The age of people signing up with the OU is dropping apparently - people are even bypassing the A Level stage and going straight to OU courses...

Oh, I think you are bothered. Because you have to reply when I comment. You can't help yourself. Now, put your Red Wedge tour tape on, calm down, and come back when you feel the ghost of Che guiding your typing hands. And your spelling is getting worse, which means you are typing in anger...

1. You do realise that fees are not payable up front - and you get the loans to make the payments? 2. You will have enough to live on as you do now - the debt accrues and you pay it back at a higher threshold of £21K and not £15K. 3. The debt is cleared after 30 years (I know, whoopee). 4...

Can you see what you said? You seriously don't believe that you should cut back in order to pursue your chosen qualification? I spent a year working in ASDA every evening and weekend, we cancelled all "luxuries" and lived on the ASDA own-brand stuff so that I could qualify with a PGCE. It was...

Don't do this, you will force Castello to implode! He was just getting on to his Anti-Tory rant (we almost had a "Thatcher" mention earlier) and you have gone and put it back in the court of the Red Machine. How can he groom Knee On when you are pointing out that the Comrades thought of all...

Nice and patronising there Mr Sanctimonius. If it wasn't a public board I would suggest that was a 7/10 attempt at grooming! It's nothing to do with voting Tory, it's more to do with how the protest was handled and the damage done to the argument. However, if you want to turn this into the...