{"id":5203,"date":"2020-11-13T17:41:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T17:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/2020\/11\/13\/tension-mounts-between-uom-student-protestors-and-police-tuition-fee-demo-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2020-11-13T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T17:41:12","slug":"tension-mounts-between-uom-student-protestors-and-police-tuition-fee-demo-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/tension-mounts-between-uom-student-protestors-and-police-tuition-fee-demo-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension mounts between UoM student protestors and police as tuition fee demo is cancelled following threats of arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"

A demonstration at Owen’s Park by University of Manchester students over the refund of tuition fees was abandoned after police threatened to arrest protestors.<\/p>\n

Student organisation SAFER<\/a> are demanding a partial refund of fees for the year, and expected a large number of students for the demonstration on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

On the day of the planned protest, police asked that protestors do not turn up at Owen\u2019s Park in Fallowfield, despite the police being informed by event organisers earlier in the week about the socially distanced protest.<\/p>\n

The Northern Quota spoke to a SAFER representative, a third year drama student who did not want to be identified.<\/p>\n

They said: \u201cWe felt the university were putting profit over people and wanted to be a voice for students.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpecifically, we want to be able to pay what the Open University charge, the undergraduate honour student fee of \u00a36,192 per annum.”<\/p>\n

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