Students are known for their love of protesting and the moment the National Union of Students (NUS) announces its agenda of the moment, scores of undergraduates are always at the ready with banners, chants and a fighting spirit.
The NUS has made a recent call to arms and asked students to stage a mass walkout over the soaring price of tuition fees. In the email sent to thousands of students, undergraduates were informed of plans for a five-day week of action in March;
"Students will not stand by and let the coalition press ahead with its destructive plans to sell off and privatise our universities and colleges. We want openness on the future of our education."
The email added: "The walkout will show the government what campuses will look like if they continue to press ahead with their plans for privatisation - deserted."
But while making your opinion heard is a lot easier when you are part of a hoard of protesters, some students have been brave enough to go it alone.
Callum Hurley and Katy Moore took their opposition to the government’s introduction of higher tuition fees in September directly to the high court.
The 17-year-olds used the premise that the September hike in tuition fees, which may comes to as much as £9,000 a year, contravened students’ human rights and also circumnavigated equality legislation.
The case did not bring a victory for the student underdogs, but it did demonstrate that students’ views could be aired and considered seriously in a court of law.
Tessa Gregory, of Public Interest Lawyers, which represented the two would-be University students, was dismayed by the contradictions of the case;
“In its ruling, the court made a clear declaration that the Government, when it passed the regulations increasing tuition fees, failed to comply with its public sector equality duties.
"It found the Government's analysis on equality issues was inadequate.
"That the court made this finding in relation to such a key plank of the Government's higher education policy cannot but reflect badly on these rushed reforms."
How do you feel about the tuition fee hikes? Would the price of university put you off pursuing a degree course and eventually landing a graduate job?