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POLICE officers armed with Tasers were sent to shield Tory Universities Minister David Willetts from students angry over his cuts to disabled learners’ funding on Thursday evening.
One photo of the confrontation at University College London (UCL) clearly shows a police officer reaching for his weapon.
He was one of four officers sent to help security guards stop a group of 40 students from forcing their way into a talk by Mr Willetts at the university, the London Student newspaper reported.
The Defence Universities Alliance is a bit to co-opt higher education into the wider drive to war — we should resist as earlier generations of scientists did, argue say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
