CHENEY School headteacher Jolie Kirby is right to fire a warning to her students not to get carried away with the uprising against increased tuition fees.

There is a time and place for schoolchildren – for that is what they are – to protest quite properly against the Government’s higher education reforms.

They are the generation about to suffer under them and it would be a worry if they did not feel aggrieved.

But there is no way that anyone can condone pupils cutting class to protest.

There is more than enough time in their day to carry out a demonstration out of school time.

Some may disagree with Mrs Kirby, but leaving school for such protests is truancy.

Some may think that many of the pupils are seeing it purely as a chance to miss school, banking on the fact that so many are out they will not be brought to book.

Yesterday’s ridiculous occupying of County Hall by protesters showed that some of these demonstrations are just random chaos with little proper thought.

Oxfordshire County Council may be run by the Conservatives but it is hardly a citadel to storm in a bid to bring the Government to its knees.

And if you are so confused you think it is, then perhaps you shouldn’t be going to university.