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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/policy-will-help-poorer-students.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Nick Clegg has urged students to call off planned demonstrations over tuition fee rises" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-policy-will-help-poorer-students.jpg" alt="Nick Clegg has urged students to call off planned demonstrations over tuition fee rises"/></a></p>
<p>Nick Clegg has urged students to call off planned demonstrations over tuition fee rises &#8211; telling them the Government&#8217;s policy would benefit less-well-off youngsters.</p>
<p>The Deputy Prime Minister suggested they should instead be protesting about the &#8220;scandalously&#8221; high proportion of pupils from the schools he and David Cameron attended getting places at Oxbridge.</p>
<p>A fresh wave of protests against increases in university tuition fees will be held on Wednesday, with a series of occupations, rallies and marches by student activists.</p>
<p>The Liberal Democrats have been at the centre of the storm after ditching a General Election pledge to oppose fee rises &#8211; and eventually abolish them &#8211; as part of the coalition deal.</p>
<p>A delegation of students is to deliver a letter to the Lib Dem leader as part of the protests, which says &#8220;no amount of twisted reasoning&#8221; can hide the fact the party lied to young voters.</p>
<p>&#8220;We call on you to withdraw Lib Dem support for Conservative cuts to our education system, or face the disappointment and anger of a generation that has been betrayed,&#8221; it says.</p>
<p>But Mr Clegg used a high-profile speech to insist he would defend the policy and told the students to &#8220;listen and look before you march and shout&#8221;.</p>
<p>In fact, the coalition&#8217;s proposals were &#8220;even fairer&#8221; than the graduate tax preferred by the National Union of Students, he said in the annual Hugo Young Lecture in central London.</p>
<p>&#8220;On higher education, I want to be crystal-clear: I will defend the Government&#8217;s plans for reforming the funding of universities, even though it is not the one I campaigned for,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is not my party&#8217;s policy, but it is the best policy given the choices we face.&#8221;</p>
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