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#OccupyLSE movement calls for an end to ‘profit-driven’ education

Dozens of London School of Economics students stage sit-in against current higher education model.

Students enrolled at the London School of Economics (LSE) have demanded “an education that is liberating”. On Tuesday, a group of protesters barricaded themselves inside the prestigious university’s Vera Antsey Suite, calling for an end to what they say is a “privatised, profit-driven, and bureaucratic ‘business model’ of higher education”.