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THE Green Party pledged yesterday to cancel all student debt at the cost of £54 billion — as well as scrapping tuition fees.
Deputy leader Amelia Womack confirmed on Saturday at the Green Party conference that its general election manifesto will pledge to fund free university for undergraduates through “progressive taxation.”
She said: “This moment in our history, when our country runs the risk of being turned over to private interests and sold to the highest bidder, is no moment for half measures.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
