The students are running the occupation from a “war room” at the Senate building in Canterbury Students occupying a building at the University of Kent have said their protest at education cuts and rises in tuition fees could end within days.
The group began its sit-in at the Senate building at the Canterbury campus on 8 December.
Other university sit-ins ended last month but the Kent protest continued.
University officials aim to regain control of the building by seeking a possession order at a hearing at Canterbury County Court on 7 January.
Alan Stephenson, a spokesman for the students, said: “We wanted to keep it going as long as possible but we had to face up to some legal matters.
“There is a court summons due on 7 January. So it will be ending round about then.”
Mr Stephenson said there were currently seven students in the Senate building.
They had spent much of Christmas without heating and living on food parcels passed to them via the security officers in the building.
The protesters have called on the university and its vice-chancellor Julia Goodfellow to condemn the government’s plans publicly.
They have also demanded that she retract herself as signatory of a letter, published in the Daily Telegraph on 8 December, which opposed cuts but also supported government plans for university funding.
Professor Goodfellow has since written an open letter in which she again deplored the cuts to higher education funding, but the students said this did not meet their demands.
The university has previously said in a statement that it had sought to establish common ground with the students.
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