On a visit to Southampton University this afternoon, David Willetts was confronted by this good-humoured protest of 60 students and staff. Questioned about the unfairness of the trebling of tuition fees, “Two Brains” reportedly floundered and had to be led away to safety by staff from the university.
Scrapbook admires the artistic skill of these humanities students, in producing such a lifelike portrait of the minister.
Students from the University of the Arts in London have deployed their creative skills to produce a music video to fight against reductions in their time spent in direct contact with tutors:
The word on the street is that contact time could be reduced to save the College money. Cuts of around 25% will be hitting education in the UK and we need to protect our most valuable resource – contact time.
The Can’t Cut This video spoofs MC Hammer’s multi-platinum selling 1990 hit U Can’t Touch This:
For pop culture philistines, here is the original video:
Perhaps universities minister David Willetts would benefit from some Hammer pants?
Prezza is not impressed by universities minister David Willetts’ suggestion that students are a “burden on the taxpayer” and should live at home, attending an FE college to achieve a “prestigious degree”:
But who knew Two Jags was a fan of Diff’rent Strokes?
