Inside the student movement
By Sofie Buckland, National Union of Students Executive Committee (pc) On the announcement of Brown's effective coronation as the new Prime Minister, the NUS leadership immediately released a set of five demands for students upon the new government. All worthy in themselves, these were: free prescriptions (shouldn’t everyone get these anyway?); concessionary bus travel; to keep interest on student loans pegged to inflation (we’d rather have grants); to extend entitlement to free level 3 qualifications for all; and to enact an equal minimum wage (at a level we can live on?). Even the least...