STUDENTS accused the Coalition Government of ignoring them after it voted through plans to treble university tuition fees.

Oxford West and Abingdon MP Nicola Blackwood voted for the changes, despite admitting the day before she was “agonising” over the decision.

Coaches carried more than 200 sixth formers and students from Oxford to London to join tens of thousands of other students for the march to Parliament Square.

Protests started peacefully but violence later flared, with six police officers hurt, according to Scotland Yard.

One was left with a serious neck injury after being injured during clashes in Westminster.

The changes to the Higher Education Act 2004, which allow universities to charge students up to £9,000 a year, were passed by 323 votes to 302 following a day of debate.

Alongside Prime Minister David Cameron, the county’s three other Conservative MPs – Ed Vaizey, Tony Baldry and John Howell – also voted with the Government. Oxford East Labour MP, Andrew Smith, opposed the changes.

Chloe Romanis, 17, a pupil at Cheney School, in Headington, was at the front of the protests and was among students charged by mounted police. She said: “It was ridiculous. We were asking to get out and the police just charged us.

“I saw one person get knocked out. He was covered in blood and needed medical treatment.

“We are all very upset with the result, because it means many of us will now be priced out of going to university.”

Pierre Marshall, 17, who goes to Cherwell School, North Oxford, was ‘kettled’ – hemmed in by police – for more than four hours.

He said: “The Government has just not listened to us.

“Thousands of us came and made our point but they still voted the scheme through.

“People were generally optimistic, but it turned to real disappointment when the result filtered through the crowds.”

Miss Blackwood said she voted for the increase but admitted the teaching grant cut was “too steep and too swift.”

She said: “‘I did not come into Parliament with the aspiration of voting in higher tuition fees, but I recognise, as I believe our academic and student leaders do, that it is imperative we provide sustainable, long-term funding for our universities.

“Since the 2006 funding reforms, the demand for university places has outstripped the funding available.”

Oxford was hit with a series of protests by students in the run-up to the vote.

Last month almost 100 protestors stormed Oxford University’s historic Radcliffe Camera after hundreds marched there from Carfax.

Days later, up to 50 schoolchildren and sixth formers occupied County Hall, in New Road, prompting Oxfordshire County council leader Keith Mitchell to brand them an “ugly, badly-dressed student rabble” and “oiks”.

And on Wednesday night dozens of young student protestors gathered in Bonn Square dressed as corpses, funeral mourners and ghosts, to mark ‘the death of education’.

About 39,000 students study at Oxford’s two universities, many living and voting in the city’s two constituencies.