Student protest, Parliament Square, December 2010. Photo: veronica_sawyer / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0, license linked at bottom of article
Ten years on from the student protests that rocked the nation, Clare Solomon and Elly Badcock discuss the 2010 student movement and the impact it had
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