In recent days, the protest has gathered support from thousands of students at a range of universities - with hundreds expressing their anger in website comments - putting pressure on HSBC to re-think its proposals.
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The Second Global Forum on the Power of Peace, held in Bangkok from 28 to 30 October 2009, brought together young people, students, representatives of universities, NGO, private sector, and governments from around the world to collaborate in building the Power of Peace Network (PPN).
"There is a real danger that this review will pave the way for higher fees and a market in prices that would see poorer students priced out of more prestigious universities and other students and universities consigned to the 'bargain basement', " said NUS president, Wes Streeting.
The event was attended by a large number of teachers, students, vice-chancellors of the universities, government officials and media.
Janet Davies (South Wales West, Plaid Cymru) asked why Welsh universities were missing out on extra money when over six per cent of UK students attend Welsh Universities.
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She cites research showing that a fifth of students at public universities are black or pardo.
What actually is the point these days of corralling students into universities so that they can be taught the liberal arts?
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Over two-thirds of students attend public colleges and universities where, traditionally, tuition has been affordable because of state investments.
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But Brian Duggan, chairman of the Aldwych group, the students' unions of the Russell Group of universities, said there was not enough detail in the figures.
Is it really possible that her grandmother or any Jewish student in European universities before the Holocaust would accept her comparison of them with Muslim students in European universities today?
And Kenyans have long been among the largest groups of African students at American universities.
Figures published recently showed a 25% drop in the numbers of Indian students entering UK universities last year.
Ministry of Education and Science data shows consistent increases in the number of students at four year universities since 1983.
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However, the number of English students enrolling at universities in Wales in 2012 fell by nearly 17% compared to the previous year.
And today, Kenyans are the largest group of African students at American universities. (Applause.) And that tradition goes back before your independence.
More than half of students who graduated from universities in the East in 2010 have struggled to find a graduate-level job, a BBC Inside Out East investigation has revealed.
But his target audience, civil servants at the federal, provincial and municipal levels plus students of public administration at Canadian universities, is large enough to propel him up the rankings.
Universities plan to offer financial incentives to attract the brightest students regardless of family income, the president of Universities UK says.
Roughly 6% of black British students got a first class honours degree at UK universities in 2011-12, compared with nearly 19% of white British students, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) shows.
Universities had previously expressed fears about the loss of overseas students from tighter visa rules - but Universities UK said that their concerns had been taken into account.
Abolishing the student-paid bit of the fee in Scotland might simply mean more students from the rest of Britain applying to Scottish universities.
In several conference calls with our executive committee in December and January, we outlined our financial models and the new realities for most private colleges and universities--declining numbers of students paying full tuition, an increasing discount rate and stiffer competition from public universities.
We continually hear of superior resident students being rejected by in-State universities and being forced to attend out-of-State schools.
Most of the universities where students had the largest debts were in London.
Some dons complain that students arrive at universities in need of remedial teaching.
And thanks to a recent change universities will charge students of uncertain immigration status the much higher fees levied on foreign students.
"The proportion of non-traditional students in universities has rocketed over the last few years, and I celebrate that achievement, " said its chief executive, Diana Warwick.
The first is a series of small bribes to encourage universities to recruit students from disadvantaged backgrounds (those with no family tradition of going to university, for example) and also to keep them studying once they start.
In emerging nations such as China and India, where a college education was a rarity just a generation ago, tens of thousands of students graduate each year from universities that are on par with the best in the world.
With large pools of qualified students coming of age, the two countries have made reforming their universities a top priority.
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