Christmas songs are all well and good, but have you ever wished that they had more of a higher education theme?

No? Well, the National Union of Students clearly did. They have taken some festive classics and added a university twist. We’ve selected three soon-to-be classics below.

Last Christmas
(Based on the Wham! classic)

Chorus
Last Christmas, you picked the loanbook apart
The very next day, you took DSA
This year, just like I had feared
You’ve made me a bigger debtor.

Verse
You’ve written a goodbye
To student funding
On which we so rely
Tell me, David
Why do you privatise me?
Is it so your friends can take over HE?

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Merry Christmas, I’ve packed up school I’ve left it
With a note from SLC saying lifelong debt
Don’t you know what a tool you’ve been
Because you’ve cut my course
I won’t see uni again

Chorus
Last Christmas, you picked the loanbook apart
The very next day, you took DSA
This year, just like I had feared
You’ve made me a bigger debtor.

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I’m Dreaming of a White Paper
(Not sung by Bing Crosby)

I’m dreaming of a White Paper
Just like the one from long ago
When the fees were tripled,
Students belittled,
Now here’s, a Green one from Jo Jo

I’m dreaming of a White Paper
That’s why I’ve nightmares, you can trust
Where it pays to treat teachers unjust
And make your universities go bust

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All I Want for Christmas
(based on the Mariah Carey hit)

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I don’t want a lot for Christmas,
There is just one thing I crave,
A public funded education cradle to the grave
I don’t want a framework to
Raise my fees and leave me screwed

What else can I do?
Public education is through – Green Paper

I don’t want a lot for Christmas,
But there’s one thing you should not test
And that’s DLHE data telling unis who has learnt the best

You can’t judge our excellence
By wages –
that’s not evidence

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What are you trying to do?
Public education is through – Green Paper

More Christmas songs from the NUS are available, with accompanying chords (so you can play them at home), at

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You can also , which THE started in 2010. Some great (and not so great) puns to be enjoyed!