Varsity Exclusive Video: Senate House lawn protest

Around 30 students from Cambridge Defend Education are spending the night in a ‘protest camp’ on the front lawn of the Senate House Building

Helen Mackreath/Andrew Griffin

by Helen Mackreath

This article is 14 years old

Friday March 11 2011, 4:08am

The camp is a protest against the University's decision to reject a debate of the Grace on bursaries, despite receiving six times the number of required signatures to initiate such a debate.

It was spontaneously established following a march earlier on Thursday 10th March regarding the same issue.

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