Students involved in a sit-in at Exeter University are engaged in passionate debate about alternatives to the govenment's cuts-based higher education policies.

The Student Christian Movement has praised nonviolent student occupations and protests against cuts, ahead of the 9 December vote on Higher Education funding.

Teaching unions, educationists, religious bodies and humanists have issued a joint call to the government to end compulsory worship in schools.

Media coverage of recent student protests in London has consistently presented the violence of a very small minority as worse than the action of of the Coalition Government, and has tried to tar all who entered the courtyards and buildings of Millbank Tower with the same brush. Tim Saunders and other Christians opposed to the cuts and supportive of non-violent action examine the events from a different perspective.