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The grotesque and archaic execution of bulls at the San Fermín festival must end. Urge the mayor of Pamplona to spare the lives of bulls and replace these cruel spectacles with a humane alternative that does not involve animals. petauk.org/5h

@ScouseJayne @Channel4News @cathynewman They’re not underfunded. Gullible students have gladly and without question handed over in excess of £27000 for tuition fees for years. And all so vice chancellors can potentially be paid millions. Appalling greed.

@Channel4News @cathynewman Huh! Unelected, scandal-riddled ex-home secretary who had to resign after claiming for porn on expenses, second-home dodgy dealings and making prisoners on day release decorate her house now wants to shut down universities through underfunding. And I thought the Tories were bad!

Education Minister Jacqui Smith is asked by @cathynewman if she is "willing to see a university go bust" because of "massive funding problems". She says: "Yes, if it were necessary. Yes, that would have to be the situation." Read here: channel4.com/news/will-labo…

@paul_d_stevens @BBCr4today @MishalHusain Agree. The only reason fees went up to 9000K per year was so vice chancellors can potentially be paid millions. Appalling. People should boycott university until the fees go down to at least 3000K.

@BBCr4today @MishalHusain No, we don't "have to restore the link with [university] tuition fees and inflation". The fees model has failed. Creating a fake "market" in higher education has failed. Scrap tuition fees. Pay the universities a realistic amount per student and bring back maintenance grants.

"You have to restore the link between tuition fees and inflation." Vivienne Stern from Universities UK tells @MishalHusain why work with the government is needed amid mounting concern about the financial circumstances of some universities in England. #R4Today

@MikeYearworth @Channel4News @cathynewman No longer the governments responsibility. Every UK university in the UK has been grossly overcharging in terms of fees for years, purely so their vice chancellors can potentially earn millions. If they want to run on greed that I’m afraid is their lookout.

@Channel4News @cathynewman Going bust!? 9000-10000K per annum per student for years, for EVERY single course! And all so that vice chancellors can earn millions! Nothing to do with underfunding whatsoever. Ripping English students off unashamedly.

@flanderosa @Channel4News @cathynewman @UKLabour How can there be a danger of any university going bust? years of gross overcharging in tuition fees! Some vice chancellors are paid millions, e.g. Neasden. Greed and mis-management of finances.

@Channel4News @cathynewman And what about the people who earn a living working at these universities? Tell me @UKLabour, how is letting a university go bust going to help the UK economy? Also going to point out that universities with ‘massive funding problems’ does not necessarily mean ‘lesser’ unis

@ThereseRaphael1 @mbrookerhk @opinion If UK universities are struggling it’s because they are paying themselves too much. They have been charging in excess of £9000 per year per student for years! Most courses will cost nowhere near that amount, even with zero government funding. #politicslive

A gloomy scenario for British universities could undermine one of the nation's biggest export earners, writes @mbrookerhk bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via @opinion

#politicslive Why does it have to be tax increases or cutbacks on public services? Nobody EVER mentions cutting back on civil servants, MP’s or local authority staff. If a business is struggling the first thing they do is make redundancies.

@santanderuk I have a question regarding my mortgage but there is now no facility to call you as the telephone number has disappeared from the website? Can you advise please? Thank you.

Saw a deer lying on side of road on A264 #Crawley shortly after #Faygate in the Horsham direction, about 19:15. Can't find information regarding deer warden.

@JoFoster_IRIS I tried tirelessly to enter a STEM career after graduating, but was discriminated against due to age. I had to enter teaching but this was not my first choice.

@rcolvile @BenedictSpence Except protecting Greenbelt is for something good. Building unaffordable houses in the south of England is for purely commercial purposes.

I hear from lots of MPs that they don’t like housing targets because they’re top-down, statist and not free-market? You know what else is top-down and statist? The planning system. The green belt. National parks.

We are determined to seek #JusticeForDomAndBruno. @BorisJohnson, please make a stand against the violence Bolsonaro has enabled and encouraged in the Amazon against Indigenous Peoples and their lands. twitter.com/GreenpeaceUK/s…

@GBNEWS I myself went to university twice. After each graduation I was turned down for every job applied for. Zero prospects. I went into teaching eventually, which was never my plan but the alternative was unemployment. Imagine how I would feel now, with 30K debt and zero prospects.

📚 🎓 Liam Halligan: University education - is it really worth it? What do you think? 👇

@GBNEWS The vast majority of jobs do not or should not require a degree. Even most white collar professions should not require a degree. For some unknown reason a huge number of employers will now only accept graduates.

#politicslive Stop saying the North is so badly off. Try living in the south with our exhorbitant house prices and huge cost of living!

#tuitionfees If the tuition fees situation remains unchanged after the parliamentary debate, time to boycott university study. Need to take action by the withdrawal of your custom. #dontapply

Scotland and Wales successfully abolished #tuitionfees. Tens of thousands of young people in England say it's time for us to follow suit. Sign @UKYP's petition calling for fees to be abolished: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/5839…… @blackpoolyc @bycLIVE @EsmeeFairbairn @Larissa_Ken

@jon_trickett We don’t have to scrap them, just reduce them drastically. 9-10K per student per every single degree in the country is totally immoral.

Scrapping tuition fees would cost £7 billion. Don’t let them tell you that’s ‘unaffordable’. Remember, the rich added £107 billion to their wealth during the pandemic. Scrap fees now.