The Friday Round-Up, Week 3

Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of The Friday Round-Up.

THE National Union of Students (NUS) have advised their campus representatives in a private memo not to campaign against the rise in tuition fees.
The memo labels the loan repayments system as "progressive" and suggests the NUS exaggerated the scale of the cuts made to the teaching budgets. It contradicts the NUS's public opposition of any increase in tuition fees.
James Brown, a second-year student at the University of Exeter, forwarded the memo to national newspaper, The Times, which revealed the news on Thursday of this week.
Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College, London have announced they will charge the maximum tuition fee of £9,000 in 2012.

POLICE fired buckshot, rubber bullets and teargas at a peaceful pro-democracy protest in Bahrain, killing four and injuring 200. Around 2,000 anti-government demonstrators were mobilised on Pearl Square in Manama, inspired by recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
The attack has provoked international condemnation.

SEX OFFENDERS can now appeal to have their names removed from the sex offenders register, the Supreme Court has ruled.
The ruling stated it was a breach of human rights for an offender's name to appear on the list for life without chance for appeal.
Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned the decision. A spokesman has announced the government would do the "minimum necessary" in order to adhere to the ruling.

PRIME Minister David Cameron has given in to public pressure over plans to sell-off forests.
Over half a million people signed an online petition against the proposal to sell more than 250,000 hectares of public forest.

THE King's Speech won seven BAFTAs this week, outperforming The Social Network, True Grit and Inception.

OBAMA is to make a state visit to Great Britain in May.

That's all from this week's Friday Round-Up. Keep checking the blog for more updates and, of course, for Friday's Round-Up.

IB