Page 5 tonight’s Evening Standard (not online as far as I can tell) by Micheal Chessum, lead organiser of today’s student demonstration:

‘Our message to the Government is very simple; tax the rich to fund education’

Translation= We’re too cowardly to steal for ourselves so we want the government to do it for us.

On a more serious point, what these protesters fail to grasp is the role of prices in allocating scare resources. If a degree is free everyone will want one and so they will be worth less. If it costs £27,000 people will think twice about whether it is worth it.