http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/08/02/qt#266732
Ideally, students would organize and say "Education is a public good. Not a cent to bankers or collectors. We'll repay through civil service in working class communities."
Regarding the riots in London, it would be great to see the energy behind last year's student protests reaching out and connecting with Black youth brutalized by the police. Also, you can now cross borders in Europe without a passport, but the example of the Indignados movement in Spain (and the revolutionary ferment in North Africa and the Middle East) needs to travel faster up north.