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Students battle on to stop university ‘marketisation’

STUDENTS across the country will join the fight today against Tory plans to plunge young people into more debt.

Free education campaigners in dozens of institutions will be staging sit-ins and demonstrations against Universities Minister Jo Johnson’s Green Paper.

The new policy would see a lift in the tuition fee cap, currently set at £9,000 a year.

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