What's the protest about, that students don't want to pay more of their own tuition costs themselves?
Why shouldn't they bear more of the cost of getting an education? Who benefits most from having an education if not the students themselves?
I think that as governments realize that they have a limited amount of money and need to spend only that instead of going deeper and deeper into debt, they have to make difficult choices about which things to fund less and they are going to piss people off no matter what they decide.
I think many students in the US would be absolutely thrilled to have the cost of their university educations be capped at only $14,000 a year.