150 London Students Launch Rent Strike Demanding Lower Housing Costs
By Charlotte Dingle for Occupy - Students in Britain have a great deal to be angry about these days. In 2009, the U.K. government made the shock decision to raise tuition fees from £1,000 to £3,000 ($1,400 to $4,300), after the Liberal Democrats reneged on their promise to scrap them entirely and fell into convenient agreement with their Conservative coalition bedfellows. Then, last year, Chancellor George Osborne announced that maintenance grants for the country's poorest students would be scrapped by September of 2016.