Roots of British Student Unrest Unresolved
By D.D. GUTTENPLAN
Published: January 2, 2011
LONDON — Despite a growing wave of student protests in Britainover government plans to sharply raise university tuition fees that saw buildings occupied at campuses across the country, and battles in the streets between demonstrators and the police whose ferocity at one point even seemed to threaten the heir to the British throne, the year 2010 ended quietly, with students heading home for the holidays and university authorities once again in control of their premises.
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