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Tens of thousands of students the U.K. took part in protests on Wednesday their government’s increase in tuition fees. They were speaking against the three-fold rise in the prices universities can charge, and their opposition to the scrapping of benefits that will poor students. The nationwide protest was by the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC). High school and university students, teachers and lecturers to the streets to demonstrate. Around 10,000 protestors in London, where there were arrests after clashes left a police officer with a broken arm. The protests were largely trouble-free, unlike those two weeks earlier in which the Conservative Party headquarters was attacked.

Britain’s ruling coalition government have made many to university education, while at the same time universities to increase tuition fees from $5,624 a year to $14,400. They say these are necessary to reduce the country’s budget . Most of the public fury is directed at the junior coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats, whose election pledge earlier this year was to tuition and maintain transport benefits for students from low- families. Their leader has done a total U-turn and these promises. Until the late 1990s, British students did not need to tuition, and many poorer students received living allowances from the government. Many protestors believe this will kill for the poor. They carried banners saying: “R.I.P My Degree.”