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Let’s talk about sextet – politicalbetting.com
Six candidates have made it onto the ballot to succeed Rishi Sunak as Tory leaderThey are: Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick, Priti Patel, Mel Stride and Tom Tugendhat https://t.co/Zoio6OgE8z
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Jenrick then likely narrowly beats Tugendhat with the membership but it would be close
Shut them.
1) Same way as Liverpool in the 80s. Through transition grants etc. The better ones can be supported to revert to being Politechnics and Technical Colleges concentrating principally on vocational non degree courses and day release courses for apprentices.
2) Tell them tough.
The whole sector will implode once some entrepreneur gets their act together for online courses at a fraction of current fees in any case.
£9,250 a year for six hours of lectures (which is about it for many arts/humanities subjects) and use of a library is outrageous.
Use the money saved to increase the number of Engineering, Science and Medical Doctor places and reduce the fees.
John Major has a lot to answer for by destroying the Polytechnics and turning them into Poundshop Universities.
(But then I voted Hunt against Johnson and Sunak vs Truss. Had a winner with Cameron in 2005).
Tory landslide in 2029.
The net result is that people who might start industrial businesss don't, and people who might expand industrial businesses* don't, and the economy suffers accordingly. But don't worry, because we can all work as diversity officers from our spare bedrooms or something. Who needs to actually *make* stuff in this day and age.
*I'm in exactly this position. I'm employing 5 people, and my industrial business is rapidly running out of room. I can't really take on more staff without more space, so I'd like to find a bigger site. I've been keeping half an eye on the commercial properties available in the area for the last year or so - nothing even halfway suitable has come up, never mind at a price I could afford. Why? Because every scrap of vacant brownfield round here instantly becomes houses.
Could be revealing.
We've had a period of high inflation and the previous government put off a lot of difficult decisions and held numbers the same, be those undergraduate tuition fees or PhD stipends. This is not viable long term. I work (sometimes) in health AI. Good postdocs are hard to come by: they can go to industry and make much more.
Not that a big pay rise for medical doctors are going to make us happy.
Colin Parry, owner of Masters Vehicle Body Repairs on Hart Street, said he called police to an address in Hart Street behind which is The Hart Space studios.
One of the events listed at The Hart Space at the time of the stabbings was a Taylor Swift-themed yoga and dance class for children in school years two to six, aged between six and 11.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/29/southport-major-incident-stabbing-police/
https://petersonacademy.com/enroll $450 per year if you enroll now.
The sticking point, as always, is the awarding (or otherwise) of a degree at the end of the course. It’s a very big if, but if he can find a way to award accredited degrees it has the potential to turn the whole university sector upside-down.
Nursing and midwifery and the only undergrad degrees in my (Russell Group uni) department, FWIW. I rarely do undergrad teaching and am not paid for it, so I don't have any particular vested interest - our entire undergrad programme could close and it would not impact my job - but I do think there is value there. It's worth noting that most of it is practical and very similar to what would be done in a non-degree nursing course, but with some added understanding of research processes, uncertainties, ethics etc and teachers who are generally research active and perhaps a bit ore cutting edge in the field than might otherwise be the case.
The director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a leading think thank, told the BBC on Friday he doesn’t think Labour’s claim of a previously unknown shortfall in the country’s finances is “credible”.
“I don’t think it’s really very credible at all," Johnson said, adding that the scale of the problems within the public sector was widely known and that the choice "as ever" is about how well the government of the day wants it to perform.
Labour seems confident its audit, which the new chancellor will detail this afternoon, will prove to the IFS and others that the numbers are different from what was previously publicly known.
But already back in March, the IFS had accused both Labour and the Tories of a "conspiracy of silence" over the scale of spending cuts or tax rises needed in the next parliamentary term.
Johnson had at the time said whoever won government knew they would face "eye-wateringly tough choices" on public service spending...
We'll just have to hope the doctors spend their 20% pay rise in the wider economy
You're probably all right that Kemi won't win and I don't have any money on her. But I want her to. And I want that bastard Jenrick to lose.
I suspect that if you stacked up the paperwork already done on this one it probably be sufficient to make a full size replica of the Henge stones...
Everyone knows he would never quit ECHR and it's that kind of over-expecting/under-delivering nonsense that has helped get the Tories where they are.
Clearly he's learned absolutely nothing.
Cleverley, Stride or Tom Tug are my picks.
I think Kemi could do it but currently has a target on her back, and needs to avoid all the start an argument in a phone box stuff.
Leadership is about being a team player.
Interesting how 3 of the candidates represent adjacent constituencies in north Essex.
I'm perhaps being unfair. Let's await to hear the details, but the foreshadowing is not positive.
https://x.com/keiranpedley/status/1816040577453973865
Not many more have heard of Tom Tugendhat.
Also, none of this is new. Lots of places have MOOCs (massive open online courses) now. Standford, for example, has a great set that you can sign up for free, but you pay for the certification. When MOOCs were first a big, new thing a few years back, everyone said they had the potential to turn the whole university sector upside-down. The challenge is that it's harder to learn that way than if you are immersed in the university environment with fellow students and access to staff. (COVID-19 kind of proved this when everyone had to go online.)
But for some people, MOOCs are great. If you can make yourself work through them, they are huge boon.
*Of the mural genus.
Infrastructure looks no different.
And both arguably lead back to dodgy assumptions at the Treasury.
As if they use libraries now we have proper e-books.
Burgessian mentioned the President of Cuba praising his fellow Putinist-dictator Maduro for fighting and (allegedly) defeating what he (the Pres not Burg) called the "Monroeist regional right".
Which I'm 99.48% sure was referring to the USA via the Monroe Doctrine, which for many Latin Americans (NOT all leftists let alone old-school or neo-Communists) is basis, justification and window dressing for American imperialism in the Western hemisphere from Point Barrow to Tierra del Fuego.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
None of this first past the post crap.
Massive increases to public sector pay
Massive increases in tax
I didn't vote for it 👍
An exhaustive series of ballots is nothing at all like AV.
If I was leading the nursing unions I'd be putting in for 20% when their next pay around comes up.
"Various job boards and recruitment sites that track the salaries of jobs they post suggest the average wage of a UK nurse is somewhere around the £35,000 to £38,000 a year mark." - Nurses.co.uk
'Average' (mean?) annual salary of graduates in England £38.5k - Statista
So, you might say, reduce numbers of people going to university, but for many of those jobs training is needed, so you wither import graduates from overseas, provide similar level course not called degrees (why/how are those cheaper?) or expect employers to train in-house (also fine, but must feed through either into reduced salaries or higher prices/costs).
For nurses, you could have NHS training centres with - presumably - similar costs, I guess.
https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/
It's also really quite impressive (to me, old-ish bloke) how many world-class researchers and teachers there are putting out amazing content on youtube for free. Not going to get you a bit of paper and a gold star at the end of it of course.
I do wonder about the fees the OU is charging though for largely remote self-learning.
Back to Dennis Healy and the IMF in short order.
How is that not like AV?
https://x.com/SouthportRFC/status/1817931936267923686
Wall Street Journal Editorial - J.D. Vance’s Basket of Deplorables
Trump’s running mate is on the defensive over his views about the childless.
Donald Trump’s choice of 39-year-old J.D. Vance as his running mate was supposed to present the GOP ticket as modern and looking to the future. Instead the campaign has found itself playing defense against Mr. Vance’s censorious views about women who don’t have children.
As it always does, the press has been digging up the VP choice’s comments over the years for political scrutiny, and the Ohio Senator turns out to be a target-rich environment. As a Senate candidate in 2021 he told Tucker Carlson, then a Fox News host, that the U.S. is being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
That sounds like he was referring to Vice President Kamala Harris, who has two stepchildren but none of her own. The comment is the sort of smart-aleck crack that gets laughs in certain right-wing male precincts. But it doesn’t play well with the millions of female voters, many of them Republican, who will decide the presidential race.
The remark has gone viral on social media and is being portrayed as an example of chauvinist views. They’re mocking it on TMZ, a sure sign that this is Mr. Vance’s first big cultural impression, and not a good one. . . .
WSJ - Inside JD Vance’s Short-Lived Career as a Venture Capitalist
Five years, three firms, two SPAC deals and a bankruptcy are the hallmarks of his stint in the tech industry
JD Vance touted his career in venture capital last week in his address to the Republican National Convention. His foray in technology investing, though, was brief by industry standards.
“I started businesses to create jobs in the kind of places that I grew up in,” the vice presidential candidate said in his convention speech. “My work taught me there is still so much talent and grit in the American heartland.” . . .
Shades of Portillo in 1997.
Was that even in the Tory manifesto. I never heard them mention ever again after the conference.
https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos
He announced his own learning platform a couple of weeks ago too :
https://eurekalabs.ai/