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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tuition-fees-protests-as-mps-vote.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted the plans are fair as tensions continue to run high" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-tuition-fees-protests-as-mps-vote.jpg" alt="Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted the plans are fair as tensions continue to run high"/></a></p>
<p>Thousands of students, lecturers and school pupils will protest against government plans to treble tuition fees at English universities as MPs gather to vote on the controversial issue.</p>
<p>Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted the plans &#8211; which will see students charged up to £9,000 a year &#8211; are fair, as tensions continue to run high.</p>
<p>Amid speculation that as many as half of Liberal Democrat MPs and a handful of Tory rebels could vote against the Government and many others abstain in Thursday&#8217;s vote, ministers were forced to add new concessions to their proposals.</p>
<p>Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg spent the day touring the TV and radio studios in a frantic last-minute drive to put a lid on rebellion. But he failed to win over his own party&#8217;s deputy leader, Simon Hughes, who said he would at least abstain and may vote against the package.</p>
<p>However, the Government felt confident enough of victory to tell Energy Secretary Chris Huhne he did not have to fly back from climate change talks in Mexico to bolster the &#8220;yes&#8221; vote.</p>
<p>It also emerged that students&#8217; leaders had proposed cuts totalling £4.2 billion over the next four years in support for poorer undergraduates, university teaching funds and scientific research grants as they tried to stave off higher tuition fees.</p>
<p>Private emails sent to Business Secretary Vince Cable in October, while he was drawing up his response to the Browne report on higher education funding, set out proposals including a £800 million reduction in maintenance grants &#8211; worth up to £2,906 a year for students from disadvantaged backgrounds &#8211; which NUS president Aaron Porter said could avoid the need for a hike in fees.</p>
<p>A coalition source said it was &#8220;astonishing&#8221; that the NUS was opposing increases in fees, to be paid after graduates are earning £21,000 or more, when its leaders were ready to contemplate &#8220;drastic&#8221; cuts in grants for existing students.</p>
<p>But Mr Porter said he had provided the &#8220;modelling&#8221; of spending cuts in response to a request from Mr Cable to show how fees could be held down to current levels.</p>
<p>Thursday&#8217;s protests are expected to centre on central London where there will be a march and rally. Students will hold a vigil at Victoria Embankment with 9,000 glowsticks representing the potential new fee level.</p>
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