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Students will today escalate their campaign to stop Con-Dem ministers privatising loans so their City pals can turn a profit from graduate debt.
Marches, rallies and stunts will take place on more than 50 campuses as part of the Student Assembly Against Austerity week of action.
Visits to MPs' constituency offices are planned and students will join in with a third national strike by university workers over pay on Thursday.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE