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Over 200 people came to a Defend the Right to Protest public forum on Monday of this week. The London meeting was organised to raise solidarity for imprisoned student protesters.

The National Union of Students (NUS) has called a national week of action against government attacks on education from Monday to Friday of next week. Many walkouts are planned for Wednesday.

Over 250 students and their supporters marched in Edinburgh on Wednesday. The demonstration was called by Scottish Students Against Cuts (SSAC) in defence of a generation of young people under attack from the austerity measures being enforced by governments in Westminster and Holyrood.

Student activist Edd Bauer has been found not guilty of intentionally causing danger to the public and conspiring with others to do so.

On 9 December 2010 thousands of students occupied Parliament Square in central London. They were attacked by riot police and charged with horses.

The National Union of Students (NUS) has called a national walkout on Wednesday 14 March against the government’s attacks on further and higher education.

University applications from students in England have fallen by 8.7 percent in the past year. The most notable is the plummet in over-21s applying.

The Defend the Right to Protest campaign has called a demonstration outside Wandsworth prison in solidarity with those inside.

Leading off the session on students, Hannah Dee spoke of a "new radical left" inside the universities that has been built up during the student movement.

Birmingham University has won a high court injunction against all occupation protests on its campus for the next 12 months.

Over 150 people took part in the Students for Revolution conference last weekend, organised by Socialist Worker Student Society (SWSS).

Students at the University of Essex have occupied a lecture theatre in solidarity with the 30 November strikes.