Cribsheet daily 11.11.10

Lone policeman surveys Millbank damage after demo — A lone policeman inspects the damage caused by student protestors. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images

The day after the 50,000-strong student march in London, Cribsheet woke to David Cameron telling Nick Robinson on the Today programme: "I think the right place for debate and argument to take place is in parliament."

Which is helpful advice for all those students who voted for the Liberal Democrats in the belief that they would represent their views in precisely that forum. Today Nick Clegg admits he rues the day he signed the pledge not to raise tuition fees.

Debate is raging about what happened on the march yesterday on Twitter's #demo2010 page.

NUS president Aaron Porter was quick to condemn those who led the Millbank violence, tweeting: "Disgusted that the actions of a minority of idiots are trying to undermine 50,000 who came to make a peaceful protest."

But others are more sanguine about the damage. @therubykid asks: "What's worse – a few broken windows at #Millbank or working-class kids being priced out of education?"

Here's the pick of today's Guardian coverage

No turning back on tuition fees, says Cameron

I should have been more careful about pledge, says Clegg

Police caught out by violence

Met admits policing was "an embarrassment"

The demo in pictures

Student Patrick Smith says don't blame the anarchists

How the rest of the media sees it

The Morning Star goes for: "Over 50,000 workers and students shook the Westminster halls of power with a march against the raising of tuition fees."

The BBC points out that while UK students were protesting, Cameron was promising Chinese students that their fees would not be raised.

The Daily Mail focuses on "the anarchists who caused chaos by hijacking the event".

The Financial Times has a blog about who will pay for the damage to Millbank (it won't be the Tories).

The Daily Mash satirical website has a biting take on the event.

And the Telegraph accuses the students of "infantile behaviour".

Other education news

Thin on the ground today, as you'd expect.

Allison Pearson tells us why grammar schools are the "only hope for our failing education system".

Russell Hobby, general secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, blogs about the independent enquiry into assessment at KS2.

And Traidcraft, the Fairtrade organisation whose aim is to "fight poverty through trade", has launched a new schools website with free teaching resources.

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