It looks as if college students in London are about to go through some tuition increases and have major cuts to their university teaching budgets. The Guardian is reporting that tuition fees are going to go as high as £9,000 as well as 40% cuts to the university teaching budgets, but these fees won’t be implemented until 2012.

So, what did London College students do about it? Well, they took to the streets in a huge protest—of about 200 people, in Millbank— to make their voices heard. The protest, as many do, turned violent but it did its job. It got attention to what is going on in the London college system and shows that their students care about their education.

California college students should take a lesson from London students. I’ve been to a couple of tuition protests, when I was in college, and they were pretty weak. Not to say that I wanted violence to break-out, but I did want to see some emotion from the protestors. It would seem that California college students don’t want to make their voices heard, when it comes to the increase in college tuition, but they sure do like to complain when they don’t have money in their wallets and/or they have to take out another loan. California college students need to get off their butts and need to do something about it. California college fees are about to increase again, and this will keep happening until students do something about it. It’s a shame that California use to be a powerhouse when it came to education, but now it’s looking more like a joke.