The Campaign for Free Education organised a small but quite noisy and bolshy demo today at the Department for Education and Skills. There were only about 80 people at the demo, which started off in very subdued fashion outside one of the entrances to the Education building. Momentum started to build as time went on, however, with chanting disturbing the civil servants at their work, and a decision being made to up sticks and move to the alternate entrance just a few hundred metres down the road. We arrived, and pretty much out of the blue some brave souls decided to dash for the entrance, eventually being followed by around 20 other demonstrators, who proceeded to sit-in at the entrance to the building...the doors being guarded by around six burly policemen and security guards. After about 30 minutes, and one arrest for 'breach of the peace' (otherwise known as touching a police officer very lightly and causing him no doubt excruciating psychological trauma), the demonstration left the entance voluntarily, and noisily, heading off to Parliament for advice and planning from several MPs, including Tony Benn.

Oi, students.....more actions like this please, and less run by the apathetic and pathetic NUS.

Matt