Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
I increasingly get the impression that all parties listed here are now attracting little more than their core vote.
I would say 14% is way in excess of the Lib Dem core vote, which is closer to 5-6% as we saw in the late coalition and early Corbyn years. MUch as it pains me to admit.
The Green core vote may be even smaller. 3% perhaps? I would take the 8% LD excess over core vote and distribute about 4% to tactical voting, 4% to NOTA and centrist Tories. And take the 6% excess for the Greens and allocate it 4% to disgruntled BJO lefties, and 2% to vaguely NOTA voters who are in mid-term mode.
The poll quoted in the LD's GE 2024 review suggested that LD voters were the most likely to be tactical voters and Con/Reform the least likely. Which suggests just lumping Tory and Reform votes together will not work.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Courses being closed are Ancient history, modern languages and translation, music, nursing, and religion and theology subjects
I can actually understand languages and especially translation - as Nick Palmer pointed out AI has already decimated that sector
Yes I know that is going to trigger SeanT sorry
Outrageous and cultural vandalism, all the above courses can be taught cheaply with fees of much less than £9k and would also then attract more students.
Closing the nursing course will also be a disaster given the shortage we have of home produced nurses
Nursing?! It's basically applied science and practical stuff, in part. So not as cheap as you think.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
The UoL agricultural college, Wye College, in my village, limped on until 2009. It's currently being converted into flats. Heythrop College went under around the same time.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
You over state the case. We haven't suddenly switched to zero foreign students. Indeed some courses are very successfully recruiting overseas.
There is a huge problem and its yet another for Starmer's government to tackle. What is University for? Is it about increasing skills and knowledge of the nation? Is it keeping people of the unemployed lists? Is it pointless?
How is it paid for and does that money give value for money?
Cardiff University seems to have a significant cultural/academic footprint. I think I know three people who did Masters there.
Probably confirmation bias.
If you work at the BBC, ITN or Sky news most of your presenting colleagues will have completed their masters at the School of Journalism. Cardiff Business School had a prestigious MBA programme. Anyone remember Professor Garel Rees off the telly news when the car workers struck?
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Not so much the few as "my few", for those on the right of politics. Very obvious on here.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
The government in 2019 told universities to massively expand their overseas numbers. They planned and budgeted for that. When the government realised that massively expanding overseas students also meant massively expanding net immigration they panicked and u-turned. No idea why they couldn't understand the link in the first place.
The cordon sanitaire between the AfD and the mainstream parties is breaking down with Friedrich Merz working with them to pass legislation to restrict migration, so for the first time it looks like a CDU/CSU/AfD coalition in some form is not impossible after the election.
Merz isn't working with the AfD. Have you ever failed to lie when posting about Germany?
Also there is zero chance of a Union + AfD coalition after the election. If you if anyone thinks Williamglenn is trustworthy and genuinely believes the bullshit he writes (both extremely unlikely) there would be a good opportunity free money betting against him on this point.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
You over state the case. We haven't suddenly switched to zero foreign students. Indeed some courses are very successfully recruiting overseas.
There is a huge problem and its yet another for Starmer's government to tackle. What is University for? Is it about increasing skills and knowledge of the nation? Is it keeping people of the unemployed lists? Is it pointless?
How is it paid for and does that money give value for money?
The foreign students are currently still there but 2024 intakes and future intakes are down, particularly at Cardiff.
I agree the problem is now Labour's. Do they choose new and radical funding initiatives or let the sector die on its arse? Your department could be funded by Perdue Pharma for example. The Sacklur's are quite keen on whitewashing their Oxycontin cash.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
You over state the case. We haven't suddenly switched to zero foreign students. Indeed some courses are very successfully recruiting overseas.
There is a huge problem and its yet another for Starmer's government to tackle. What is University for? Is it about increasing skills and knowledge of the nation? Is it keeping people of the unemployed lists? Is it pointless?
How is it paid for and does that money give value for money?
The foreign students are currently still there but 2024 intakes and future intakes are down, particularly at Cardiff.
I agree the problem is now Labour's. Do they choose new and radical funding initiatives or let the sector die on its arse? Your department could be funded by Perdue Pharma for example. The Sacklur's are quite keen on whitewashing their Oxycontin cash.
We are already sponsored in several ways by pharmacy companies and pharmaceuticals. But most of our extra income is NHS based, and they get the benefit as 55% of our cohort joins the NHS on graduation.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
That’s 16% less students who are each spend £75,000 to go to university before you start looking at their spending on somewhere to live and other spending
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
The government in 2019 told universities to massively expand their overseas numbers. They planned and budgeted for that. When the government realised that massively expanding overseas students also meant massively expanding net immigration they panicked and u-turned. No idea why they couldn't understand the link in the first place.
Well, it was Theresa May herself who insisted students should be counted in the headline immigration stats, so she should have known...
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
You over state the case. We haven't suddenly switched to zero foreign students. Indeed some courses are very successfully recruiting overseas.
There is a huge problem and its yet another for Starmer's government to tackle. What is University for? Is it about increasing skills and knowledge of the nation? Is it keeping people of the unemployed lists? Is it pointless?
How is it paid for and does that money give value for money?
You might be deluding yourself. I expect you would have thought the late comers would be the first to fall, maybe the Universities of Bolton, Gloucester and Worcester, but Cardiff tells you, outside Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Durham and the older London Colleges you are all in peril. Although I suspect Bath isn't far behind those elite schools I've mentioned, but as for the Universities of the West of England, South Wales and Trinity St David's maybe if I worked there I wouldn't want to extend my mortgage.
The cordon sanitaire between the AfD and the mainstream parties is breaking down with Friedrich Merz working with them to pass legislation to restrict migration, so for the first time it looks like a CDU/CSU/AfD coalition in some form is not impossible after the election.
Merz isn't working with the AfD. Have you ever failed to lie when posting about Germany?
Also there is zero chance of a Union + AfD coalition after the election. If you if anyone thinks Williamglenn is trustworthy and genuinely believes the bullshit he writes (both extremely unlikely) there would be a good opportunity free money betting against him on this point.
The cordon sanitaire between the AfD and the mainstream parties is breaking down with Friedrich Merz working with them to pass legislation to restrict migration, so for the first time it looks like a CDU/CSU/AfD coalition in some form is not impossible after the election.
In that eventuality there’d be a bit of a push me pull me between Ukraine must win Merz and the AfD peaceniks. Who do you want to win in that tug of war?
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
The cordon sanitaire between the AfD and the mainstream parties is breaking down with Friedrich Merz working with them to pass legislation to restrict migration, so for the first time it looks like a CDU/CSU/AfD coalition in some form is not impossible after the election.
Merz isn't working with the AfD. Have you ever failed to lie when posting about Germany?
Also there is zero chance of a Union + AfD coalition after the election. If you if anyone thinks Williamglenn is trustworthy and genuinely believes the bullshit he writes (both extremely unlikely) there would be a good opportunity free money betting against him on this point.
Scholz warnt vor möglicher Koalition aus Union und AfD
He's full of shit. Though what he actually said was naturally a bit more mealy-mouthed, which is your usual style so I am sure you approve
"Die Bürgerinnen und Bürger müssen sich schon fragen, ob sie sich darauf verlassen können, dass, falls es eine Mehrheit von CDU und AfD gäbe, es nicht doch eine schwarz-blaue Koalition gibt"
I increasingly get the impression that all parties listed here are now attracting little more than their core vote.
We need to consider - as it caused every sitting government (ROI coalition still only exception?) to lose election, even helped Trump over the line despite the mountain of unelectability he is - the impact of an historical erosion of incomes, still acting on the psyche of UK voters right now in all post election polling. In terms of cheesed off psyche from income erosion, it’s not something to become reset on General Election results or change of government. Cheesed off voters will blame any with or had power, and less established parties the beneficiaries in polling, is exactly what we would expect isn’t it?
If polling companies getting increasing numbers saying D/K won’t vote, and don’t share this information, does it actually mislead us geeky Psephologists and political bettors?
Say the answer back to the poll was Labour 13%, Con 10% Ref 9% don’t know wont say 57%, how would reading something like that actually change what you are thinking about it? The size of the number who recall voting Labour last July, or who answered as Labour in last general election polling, who don’t give another party name but answer don’t know, could be a crucial difference, how the table in your post would look very different, second guessing how lost to Labour their 2024 voters are.
Those figures are worth keeping an eye on. In the recent YouGov published today Won't Vote (12) + DK (12) + Refused (4) = 28% of the total asked.
The cordon sanitaire between the AfD and the mainstream parties is breaking down with Friedrich Merz working with them to pass legislation to restrict migration, so for the first time it looks like a CDU/CSU/AfD coalition in some form is not impossible after the election.
Merz isn't working with the AfD. Have you ever failed to lie when posting about Germany?
Also there is zero chance of a Union + AfD coalition after the election. If you if anyone thinks Williamglenn is trustworthy and genuinely believes the bullshit he writes (both extremely unlikely) there would be a good opportunity free money betting against him on this point.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
If you pay £20000 a year in fees, but bring two children (cost of schooling £15000) you've not really bought in much money. The University got £20000, but the country didn't. Hence the new rules.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
If you pay £20000 a year in fees, but bring two children (cost of schooling £15000) you've not really bought in much money. The University got £20000, but the country didn't. Hence the new rules.
Anything to back up that story as so far it isn’t even an anecdote
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
You over state the case. We haven't suddenly switched to zero foreign students. Indeed some courses are very successfully recruiting overseas.
There is a huge problem and its yet another for Starmer's government to tackle. What is University for? Is it about increasing skills and knowledge of the nation? Is it keeping people of the unemployed lists? Is it pointless?
How is it paid for and does that money give value for money?
You might be deluding yourself. I expect you would have thought the late comers would be the first to fall, maybe the Universities of Bolton, Gloucester and Worcester, but Cardiff tells you, outside Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Durham and the older London Colleges you are all in peril. Although I suspect Bath isn't far behind those elite schools I've mentioned, but as for the Universities of the West of England, South Wales and Trinity St David's maybe if I worked there I wouldn't want to extend my mortgage.
Always a favourite. AH discovers he applied to Bath Spa in error:
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
If you pay £20000 a year in fees, but bring two children (cost of schooling £15000) you've not really bought in much money. The University got £20000, but the country didn't. Hence the new rules.
Anything to back up that story as so far it isn’t even an anecdote
You think students who bring dependent children pay for their schooling? It's free.
The cordon sanitaire between the AfD and the mainstream parties is breaking down with Friedrich Merz working with them to pass legislation to restrict migration, so for the first time it looks like a CDU/CSU/AfD coalition in some form is not impossible after the election.
Merz isn't working with the AfD. Have you ever failed to lie when posting about Germany?
Also there is zero chance of a Union + AfD coalition after the election. If you if anyone thinks Williamglenn is trustworthy and genuinely believes the bullshit he writes (both extremely unlikely) there would be a good opportunity free money betting against him on this point.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
Various governments didn’t get sign off from the British public about population growth from emigration of serious fractions of a percent per year.
That’s the problem of democracy.
For myself I don’t mind population growth of even 5% a year. But I will insist on building 10 million homes a year, if that’s how you want to roll it. And hospitals. And roads. And if you don’t like that kind of building rate - move to the Chilean desert.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
If you pay £20000 a year in fees, but bring two children (cost of schooling £15000) you've not really bought in much money. The University got £20000, but the country didn't. Hence the new rules.
Anything to back up that story as so far it isn’t even an anecdote
You think students who bring dependent children pay for their schooling? It's free.
I was asking for examples of foreign students bringing their school age children with them.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
If you pay £20000 a year in fees, but bring two children (cost of schooling £15000) you've not really bought in much money. The University got £20000, but the country didn't. Hence the new rules.
Anything to back up that story as so far it isn’t even an anecdote
You think students who bring dependent children pay for their schooling? It's free.
I was asking for examples of foreign students bringing their school age children with them.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
If you pay £20000 a year in fees, but bring two children (cost of schooling £15000) you've not really bought in much money. The University got £20000, but the country didn't. Hence the new rules.
Anything to back up that story as so far it isn’t even an anecdote
You think students who bring dependent children pay for their schooling? It's free.
I was asking for examples of foreign students bringing their school age children with them.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
Various governments didn’t get sign off from the British public about population growth from emigration of serious fractions of a percent per year.
That’s the problem of democracy.
For myself I don’t mind population growth of even 5% a year. But I will insist on building 10 million homes a year, if that’s how you want to roll it. And hospitals. And roads. And if you don’t like that kind of building rate - move to the Chilean desert.
How would you feel about a majority Muslim UK? With homosexuality illegal again? Blasphemy laws on the statute books? Sharia law enforced by the state?
Presumably you don’t want that (or maybe you do). At which point you have to admit that this is not just about numbers. It is about the vast cultural change that comes with big numbers
The cordon sanitaire between the AfD and the mainstream parties is breaking down with Friedrich Merz working with them to pass legislation to restrict migration, so for the first time it looks like a CDU/CSU/AfD coalition in some form is not impossible after the election.
Merz isn't working with the AfD. Have you ever failed to lie when posting about Germany?
Also there is zero chance of a Union + AfD coalition after the election. If you if anyone thinks Williamglenn is trustworthy and genuinely believes the bullshit he writes (both extremely unlikely) there would be a good opportunity free money betting against him on this point.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
If you pay £20000 a year in fees, but bring two children (cost of schooling £15000) you've not really bought in much money. The University got £20000, but the country didn't. Hence the new rules.
Anything to back up that story as so far it isn’t even an anecdote
You think students who bring dependent children pay for their schooling? It's free.
I was asking for examples of foreign students bringing their school age children with them.
The cordon sanitaire between the AfD and the mainstream parties is breaking down with Friedrich Merz working with them to pass legislation to restrict migration, so for the first time it looks like a CDU/CSU/AfD coalition in some form is not impossible after the election.
Merz isn't working with the AfD. Have you ever failed to lie when posting about Germany?
Also there is zero chance of a Union + AfD coalition after the election. If you if anyone thinks Williamglenn is trustworthy and genuinely believes the bullshit he writes (both extremely unlikely) there would be a good opportunity free money betting against him on this point.
Scholz warnt vor möglicher Koalition aus Union und AfD
He's full of shit. Though what he actually said was naturally a bit more mealy-mouthed, which is your usual style so I am sure you approve
"Die Bürgerinnen und Bürger müssen sich schon fragen, ob sie sich darauf verlassen können, dass, falls es eine Mehrheit von CDU und AfD gäbe, es nicht doch eine schwarz-blaue Koalition gibt"
I increasingly get the impression that all parties listed here are now attracting little more than their core vote.
I would say 14% is way in excess of the Lib Dem core vote, which is closer to 5-6% as we saw in the late coalition and early Corbyn years. MUch as it pains me to admit.
The Green core vote may be even smaller. 3% perhaps? I would take the 8% LD excess over core vote and distribute about 4% to tactical voting, 4% to NOTA and centrist Tories. And take the 6% excess for the Greens and allocate it 4% to disgruntled BJO lefties, and 2% to vaguely NOTA voters who are in mid-term mode.
The poll quoted in the LD's GE 2024 review suggested that LD voters were the most likely to be tactical voters and Con/Reform the least likely. Which suggests just lumping Tory and Reform votes together will not work.
In the olden days of not long ago it was just about possible to lump together most votes into centre right or centre left - just two groups in recent years this being Con v Lab/LD/SNP/PC/Green.
I don't think this convenient two group identity is remotely correct or possible now, and I think this is probably a product of the Brexit years.
So what does have any use? I think Lab+Con v All others (SPLORG) is a useful measure of the crisis the two party system may be in.
I think Con v Lab/LD/SNP is a specific but incomplete indicator of a traditional division.
But neither Greens nor Reform fit properly in a two team formation.
Reform are not Right, Centre Right, Radical Right or Extreme Right in any sense at all. And Greens are not Centre Left.
This needs thought. Someone cleverer than I should write an article. My starting point is that everyone (apart from Greens possibly, but certainly including Reform) are different versions of post WWII social democracy. WRT that starting point, what distinguishes them?
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
Various governments didn’t get sign off from the British public about population growth from emigration of serious fractions of a percent per year.
That’s the problem of democracy.
For myself I don’t mind population growth of even 5% a year. But I will insist on building 10 million homes a year, if that’s how you want to roll it. And hospitals. And roads. And if you don’t like that kind of building rate - move to the Chilean desert.
How would you feel about a majority Muslim UK? With homosexuality illegal again? Blasphemy laws on the statute books? Sharia law enforced by the state?
Presumably you don’t want that (or maybe you do). At which point you have to admit that this is not just about numbers. It is about the vast cultural change that comes with big numbers
Yet another reason why we should never have left the EU.
That surprises me. For my whole life the two populations have been almost exactly the same. I'm surprised this is the first time it's happened.
Yeah I don’t believe it either
Also IIRC the population of France depends very much on how you count it. There is “metropolitan France” - ie France - and then there’s France plus its overseas territories (about ~2m more? rough guess)
That surprises me. For my whole life the two populations have been almost exactly the same. I'm surprised this is the first time it's happened.
Yeah I don’t believe it either
Also IIRC the population of France depends very much on how you count it. There is “metropolitan France” - ie France - and then there’s France plus its overseas territories (about ~2m more? rough guess)
Ah, yes, that will be the difference here. I expect I've been thinking of metropolitan France. Good spot.
“As of January 2024, Metropolitan France has a population of approximately 66.1 million people. In contrast, the combined population of France, including its overseas departments and territories (DOM-TOM), is about 68.4 million. This means that Metropolitan France accounts for roughly 96.6% of the total population, with the overseas regions contributing the remaining 3.4%. “
I believe the French decided to add the DOM-TOMs to the “national population total” in order to beef up their claim to more MEPs etc
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
Various governments didn’t get sign off from the British public about population growth from emigration of serious fractions of a percent per year.
That’s the problem of democracy.
For myself I don’t mind population growth of even 5% a year. But I will insist on building 10 million homes a year, if that’s how you want to roll it. And hospitals. And roads. And if you don’t like that kind of building rate - move to the Chilean desert.
How would you feel about a majority Muslim UK? With homosexuality illegal again? Blasphemy laws on the statute books? Sharia law enforced by the state?
Presumably you don’t want that (or maybe you do). At which point you have to admit that this is not just about numbers. It is about the vast cultural change that comes with big numbers
Yet another reason why we should never have left the EU.
The EU which shortly before Brexit admitted 1 million immigrants from the Middle East?
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
Various governments didn’t get sign off from the British public about population growth from emigration of serious fractions of a percent per year.
That’s the problem of democracy.
For myself I don’t mind population growth of even 5% a year. But I will insist on building 10 million homes a year, if that’s how you want to roll it. And hospitals. And roads. And if you don’t like that kind of building rate - move to the Chilean desert.
How would you feel about a majority Muslim UK? With homosexuality illegal again? Blasphemy laws on the statute books? Sharia law enforced by the state?
Presumably you don’t want that (or maybe you do). At which point you have to admit that this is not just about numbers. It is about the vast cultural change that comes with big numbers
It's another form of free movement, where the ideology wins out over the political reality.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
Various governments didn’t get sign off from the British public about population growth from emigration of serious fractions of a percent per year.
That’s the problem of democracy.
For myself I don’t mind population growth of even 5% a year. But I will insist on building 10 million homes a year, if that’s how you want to roll it. And hospitals. And roads. And if you don’t like that kind of building rate - move to the Chilean desert.
How would you feel about a majority Muslim UK? With homosexuality illegal again? Blasphemy laws on the statute books? Sharia law enforced by the state?
Presumably you don’t want that (or maybe you do). At which point you have to admit that this is not just about numbers. It is about the vast cultural change that comes with big numbers
Yet another reason why we should never have left the EU.
The EU which shortly before Brexit admitted 1 million immigrants from the Middle East?
Yes. We have replaced immigration from European countries with immigration from Asia and Africa. That does not help preserve our culture.
Yes it’s weirdly and obviously wrong. France went through decades of neurosis about its low population compared to the UK and Germany. It’s one of the recent drivers of modern history. Illiterate Guardian twits
France should be happy with a lower population. It’s one thing that makes France a nicer place to be. Sense of space. Room to breathe. Britain is chocka by contrast - which has real world economic impacts as infrastructure gets ever harder to complete (as someone always lives in the way)
“As of January 2024, Metropolitan France has a population of approximately 66.1 million people. In contrast, the combined population of France, including its overseas departments and territories (DOM-TOM), is about 68.4 million. This means that Metropolitan France accounts for roughly 96.6% of the total population, with the overseas regions contributing the remaining 3.4%. “
I believe the French decided to add the DOM-TOMs to the “national population total” in order to beef up their claim to more MEPs etc
Are the residents of DOM-TOMs French citizens, with all the same rights, etc?
Or is it like the UK where (for example) being a Hong Kong citizen did not give you rights to move to the UK or to vote in UK elections?
I increasingly get the impression that all parties listed here are now attracting little more than their core vote.
I would say 14% is way in excess of the Lib Dem core vote, which is closer to 5-6% as we saw in the late coalition and early Corbyn years. MUch as it pains me to admit.
The Green core vote may be even smaller. 3% perhaps? I would take the 8% LD excess over core vote and distribute about 4% to tactical voting, 4% to NOTA and centrist Tories. And take the 6% excess for the Greens and allocate it 4% to disgruntled BJO lefties, and 2% to vaguely NOTA voters who are in mid-term mode.
The poll quoted in the LD's GE 2024 review suggested that LD voters were the most likely to be tactical voters and Con/Reform the least likely. Which suggests just lumping Tory and Reform votes together will not work.
In the olden days of not long ago it was just about possible to lump together most votes into centre right or centre left - just two groups in recent years this being Con v Lab/LD/SNP/PC/Green.
I don't think this convenient two group identity is remotely correct or possible now, and I think this is probably a product of the Brexit years.
So what does have any use? I think Lab+Con v All others (SPLORG) is a useful measure of the crisis the two party system may be in.
I think Con v Lab/LD/SNP is a specific but incomplete indicator of a traditional division.
But neither Greens nor Reform fit properly in a two team formation.
Reform are not Right, Centre Right, Radical Right or Extreme Right in any sense at all. And Greens are not Centre Left.
This needs thought. Someone cleverer than I should write an article. My starting point is that everyone (apart from Greens possibly, but certainly including Reform) are different versions of post WWII social democracy. WRT that starting point, what distinguishes them?
The other factor is, if the next election comes around with anything resembling a three-way tie as at present, there are going to be a lot of people thinking they're very clever with tactical voting having it blow up in their face...
That surprises me. For my whole life the two populations have been almost exactly the same. I'm surprised this is the first time it's happened.
Yeah I don’t believe it either
Also IIRC the population of France depends very much on how you count it. There is “metropolitan France” - ie France - and then there’s France plus its overseas territories (about ~2m more? rough guess)
It doesn't really matter how you count it, for most of the 20th century (1900-1990) the UK population was higher than France's - e.g 1950: France 42m, UK 50m.
Yes it’s weirdly and obviously wrong. France went through decades of neurosis about its low population compared to the UK and Germany. It’s one of the recent drivers of modern history. Illiterate Guardian twits
France should be happy with a lower population. It’s one thing that makes France a nicer place to be. Sense of space. Room to breathe. Britain is chocka by contrast - which has real world economic impacts as infrastructure gets ever harder to complete (as someone always lives in the way)
There are plenty of parts of the UK that are desolate, like in most countries. It's just that people don't want to live in those places.
“As of January 2024, Metropolitan France has a population of approximately 66.1 million people. In contrast, the combined population of France, including its overseas departments and territories (DOM-TOM), is about 68.4 million. This means that Metropolitan France accounts for roughly 96.6% of the total population, with the overseas regions contributing the remaining 3.4%. “
I believe the French decided to add the DOM-TOMs to the “national population total” in order to beef up their claim to more MEPs etc
Are the residents of DOM-TOMs French citizens, with all the same rights, etc?
Or is it like the UK where (for example) being a Hong Kong citizen did not give you rights to move to the UK or to vote in UK elections?
If you live in an overseas French department - Martinique, Mayotte, etc - you have all the rights of a full French and EU citizen. I believe it varies beyond that - New Caledonia and so on
My sweet balls are running all over the shop today.
That could be either a minor, or very serious accident indeed.
It’s Party Time! I’ve going to serve lots of spicy beef and vegetable jiaozi. And hopefully sweet balls., though they wouldn’t get me in bake off. And I’m making an orange punch, which I’ve already tested
Yes it’s weirdly and obviously wrong. France went through decades of neurosis about its low population compared to the UK and Germany. It’s one of the recent drivers of modern history. Illiterate Guardian twits
France should be happy with a lower population. It’s one thing that makes France a nicer place to be. Sense of space. Room to breathe. Britain is chocka by contrast - which has real world economic impacts as infrastructure gets ever harder to complete (as someone always lives in the way)
The Graun journo looks about 25, so you can't really expect him to know that 'records began' before 1990.
To be fair to him though, the article does contain this gem:
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, who was an immigration minister between 2019 and 2021 at a time when the net migration figure was surging to its peak, said: “This projection is shocking and unacceptable. It can and must be stopped from materialising.
“Ten million arrivals over 10 years is far too high. We need a binding legal cap on visas issued each year which is very, very substantially lower than this in order to get the numbers down and under control.”
Yes it’s weirdly and obviously wrong. France went through decades of neurosis about its low population compared to the UK and Germany. It’s one of the recent drivers of modern history. Illiterate Guardian twits
France should be happy with a lower population. It’s one thing that makes France a nicer place to be. Sense of space. Room to breathe. Britain is chocka by contrast - which has real world economic impacts as infrastructure gets ever harder to complete (as someone always lives in the way)
There are plenty of parts of the UK that are desolate, like in most countries. It's just that people don't want to live in those places.
French desolation often means empty places like Lozere and Aveyron. Which are often beautiful and sunny - not the Lancashire moors
However there is maybe nowhere in France with the noomy sublimity of the Highlands and Islands
The cordon sanitaire between the AfD and the mainstream parties is breaking down with Friedrich Merz working with them to pass legislation to restrict migration, so for the first time it looks like a CDU/CSU/AfD coalition in some form is not impossible after the election.
Merz isn't working with the AfD. Have you ever failed to lie when posting about Germany?
Also there is zero chance of a Union + AfD coalition after the election. If you if anyone thinks Williamglenn is trustworthy and genuinely believes the bullshit he writes (both extremely unlikely) there would be a good opportunity free money betting against him on this point.
Scholz warnt vor möglicher Koalition aus Union und AfD
Also here is what Merz himself said a couple of days ago
"Es wird keine Zusammenarbeit mit der AfD geben. Darauf können sich alle verlassen",
They're not even talking to each other, let alone working together as you claim.
Here I will invoke Mandy Rice-Davies.
You need to produce some evidence that they are "working together" you can't because you're full of shit.
What was it you said when someone asked about the AfD the other day "you can't define them because they are an umbrella group for all the opponents of the regime" what utter horseshit!
Yes it’s weirdly and obviously wrong. France went through decades of neurosis about its low population compared to the UK and Germany. It’s one of the recent drivers of modern history. Illiterate Guardian twits
France should be happy with a lower population. It’s one thing that makes France a nicer place to be. Sense of space. Room to breathe. Britain is chocka by contrast - which has real world economic impacts as infrastructure gets ever harder to complete (as someone always lives in the way)
There are plenty of parts of the UK that are desolate, like in most countries. It's just that people don't want to live in those places.
French desolation often means empty places like Lozere and Aveyron. Which are often beautiful and sunny - not the Lancashire moors
However there is maybe nowhere in France with the noomy sublimity of the Highlands and Islands
The RedLetterMedia review of Star Trek: Section 31 is up. Their reaction is unfortunately similar to mine: indifference. It's not like it's bad or good, it's just that nobody was interested in the spinoff and it's...meh? Rather sad, really...
I increasingly get the impression that all parties listed here are now attracting little more than their core vote.
I would say 14% is way in excess of the Lib Dem core vote, which is closer to 5-6% as we saw in the late coalition and early Corbyn years. MUch as it pains me to admit.
The Green core vote may be even smaller. 3% perhaps? I would take the 8% LD excess over core vote and distribute about 4% to tactical voting, 4% to NOTA and centrist Tories. And take the 6% excess for the Greens and allocate it 4% to disgruntled BJO lefties, and 2% to vaguely NOTA voters who are in mid-term mode.
The poll quoted in the LD's GE 2024 review suggested that LD voters were the most likely to be tactical voters and Con/Reform the least likely. Which suggests just lumping Tory and Reform votes together will not work.
In the olden days of not long ago it was just about possible to lump together most votes into centre right or centre left - just two groups in recent years this being Con v Lab/LD/SNP/PC/Green.
I don't think this convenient two group identity is remotely correct or possible now, and I think this is probably a product of the Brexit years.
So what does have any use? I think Lab+Con v All others (SPLORG) is a useful measure of the crisis the two party system may be in.
I think Con v Lab/LD/SNP is a specific but incomplete indicator of a traditional division.
But neither Greens nor Reform fit properly in a two team formation.
Reform are not Right, Centre Right, Radical Right or Extreme Right in any sense at all. And Greens are not Centre Left.
This needs thought. Someone cleverer than I should write an article. My starting point is that everyone (apart from Greens possibly, but certainly including Reform) are different versions of post WWII social democracy. WRT that starting point, what distinguishes them?
The other factor is, if the next election comes around with anything resembling a three-way tie as at present, there are going to be a lot of people thinking they're very clever with tactical voting having it blow up in their face...
Like those who thought they were being clever for Cleverly in the Tory leadership ballot. What a screw up.
Yes it’s weirdly and obviously wrong. France went through decades of neurosis about its low population compared to the UK and Germany. It’s one of the recent drivers of modern history. Illiterate Guardian twits
France should be happy with a lower population. It’s one thing that makes France a nicer place to be. Sense of space. Room to breathe. Britain is chocka by contrast - which has real world economic impacts as infrastructure gets ever harder to complete (as someone always lives in the way)
There are plenty of parts of the UK that are desolate, like in most countries. It's just that people don't want to live in those places.
French desolation often means empty places like Lozere and Aveyron. Which are often beautiful and sunny - not the Lancashire moors
However there is maybe nowhere in France with the noomy sublimity of the Highlands and Islands
Kerguelen?
In that case I counter with the Antarctic Peninsula - which is part of the British Antarctic territory and is - without exaggerating - the most spectacularly sublime place on earth. I know because I’ve been there and I almost died there doing Antarctic kayaking
"BREAKING: France has discussed with Denmark sending troops to Greenland in response to United States President Donald Trump's repeated threats to annex the Danish territory, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said."
"BREAKING: France has discussed with Denmark sending troops to Greenland in response to United States President Donald Trump's repeated threats to annex the Danish territory, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said."
It's a mad world, my masters.
Is it bad that I want a war between France and America?
"BREAKING: France has discussed with Denmark sending troops to Greenland in response to United States President Donald Trump's repeated threats to annex the Danish territory, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said."
It's a mad world, my masters.
I was assured this was impossible by some pb'ers only, err, last week.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
Perhaps the burden of family migration negates the benefit of overseas students’ fees.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
The Thatcher government closed all of the small colleges in London University.
I do think there is an existential crisis in the university sector. The domestic students are subsidised by foreign students and we killed that golden goose a couple of years ago. Without student fees, from wherever the come, the sector dies.
"Killed that golden goose" is rather relative. Yes, 2024 had 16% fewer foreign students than 2023, but it's still 40% higher than, say, 2015.
Certain universities are addicted to ever increasing numbers of foreign students.
I remember when aiming for a balance of trade surplus with Johnny Foreigner nations was regarded as a positive. Now it's "don't come over here with your foreign money".
Various governments didn’t get sign off from the British public about population growth from emigration of serious fractions of a percent per year.
That’s the problem of democracy.
For myself I don’t mind population growth of even 5% a year. But I will insist on building 10 million homes a year, if that’s how you want to roll it. And hospitals. And roads. And if you don’t like that kind of building rate - move to the Chilean desert.
How would you feel about a majority Muslim UK? With homosexuality illegal again? Blasphemy laws on the statute books? Sharia law enforced by the state?
Presumably you don’t want that (or maybe you do). At which point you have to admit that this is not just about numbers. It is about the vast cultural change that comes with big numbers
Are you seeing the Thames foaming with much blood?
Yes it’s weirdly and obviously wrong. France went through decades of neurosis about its low population compared to the UK and Germany. It’s one of the recent drivers of modern history. Illiterate Guardian twits
France should be happy with a lower population. It’s one thing that makes France a nicer place to be. Sense of space. Room to breathe. Britain is chocka by contrast - which has real world economic impacts as infrastructure gets ever harder to complete (as someone always lives in the way)
There are plenty of parts of the UK that are desolate, like in most countries. It's just that people don't want to live in those places.
French desolation often means empty places like Lozere and Aveyron. Which are often beautiful and sunny - not the Lancashire moors
However there is maybe nowhere in France with the noomy sublimity of the Highlands and Islands
Kerguelen?
In that case I counter with the Antarctic Peninsula - which is part of the British Antarctic territory and is - without exaggerating - the most spectacularly sublime place on earth. I know because I’ve been there and I almost died there doing Antarctic kayaking
Shhht. Lammy will probably want to pay Argentina to take it.
"BREAKING: France has discussed with Denmark sending troops to Greenland in response to United States President Donald Trump's repeated threats to annex the Danish territory, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said."
It's a mad world, my masters.
A quickfire thermonuclear exchange would certainly help accelerate access to all those ice-covered minerals.
"BREAKING: France has discussed with Denmark sending troops to Greenland in response to United States President Donald Trump's repeated threats to annex the Danish territory, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said."
It's a mad world, my masters.
A quickfire thermonuclear exchange would certainly help accelerate access to all those ice-covered minerals.
"BREAKING: France has discussed with Denmark sending troops to Greenland in response to United States President Donald Trump's repeated threats to annex the Danish territory, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said."
It's a mad world, my masters.
Is it bad that I want a war between France and America?
Trump will probably relocate the Statue of Liberty to Nuuk harbour.
"BREAKING: France has discussed with Denmark sending troops to Greenland in response to United States President Donald Trump's repeated threats to annex the Danish territory, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said."
Cardiff University sets out proposals for 400 redundancies
Workforce is just over 7k, with a 50/50 academic/administrative split.
Is there a breakdown of the numbers?
TBH it sounds like a pinprick - although I'm sure various pols will be claiming to have parented kittens.
A few years before I started University in the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher cut the University's central funding by 30% (also Aston, Salford as industrial enthusiast Maggie cut the industrial universities hardest), and they lost some core courses.
Comments
Probably confirmation bias.
Now for those on the right of politics who are desperate for exclusively elite universities servicing the few, this can only be good news. For the rest of us it marks a shift away from educating our young people to conquer the World intellectually.
There is a huge problem and its yet another for Starmer's government to tackle. What is University for? Is it about increasing skills and knowledge of the nation? Is it keeping people of the unemployed lists? Is it pointless?
How is it paid for and does that money give value for money?
I think it's outrageous.
It equals whatever you want it to equal.
Also there is zero chance of a Union + AfD coalition after the election. If you if anyone thinks Williamglenn is trustworthy and genuinely believes the bullshit he writes (both extremely unlikely) there would be a good opportunity free money betting against him on this point.
I agree the problem is now Labour's. Do they choose new and radical funding initiatives or let the sector die on its arse? Your department could be funded by Perdue Pharma for example. The Sacklur's are quite keen on whitewashing their Oxycontin cash.
And, in any event, the number of overseas students is still huge.
O/T but happy ending as dino (bit of) comes home to Swindon.
PB commies view.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundestagswahl/scholz-migrationsdebatte-100.html
Scholz warnt vor möglicher Koalition aus Union und AfD
I didn’t realise accountants could get snobby and elitist.
"Die Bürgerinnen und Bürger müssen sich schon fragen, ob sie sich darauf verlassen können, dass, falls es eine Mehrheit von CDU und AfD gäbe, es nicht doch eine schwarz-blaue Koalition gibt"
https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/VotingIntention_MRP_250127_publish.pdf
"Es wird keine Zusammenarbeit mit der AfD geben. Darauf können sich alle verlassen",
They're not even talking to each other, let alone working together as you claim.
https://x.com/CraigDMauger/status/1884268183835795784
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqTvSBVbuGA
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/28/uk-population-exceeds-that-of-france-for-first-time-on-record
That’s the problem of democracy.
For myself I don’t mind population growth of even 5% a year. But I will insist on building 10 million homes a year, if that’s how you want to roll it. And hospitals. And roads. And if you don’t like that kind of building rate - move to the Chilean desert.
First Google result. They don't write this advice for amusement.
Also as with other examples when you search - that’s for post graduate courses which are rather different to undergraduate ones.
The £25,000 a year I was talking about is for undergraduate courses
Presumably you don’t want that (or maybe you do). At which point you have to admit that this is not just about numbers. It is about the vast cultural change that comes with big numbers
I'm afraid it's 1AM here, but if you find the figures do post them. There are of course adult dependents too.
(Edit - the context.)
Sen. Gary Peters won’t seek reelection in Michigan
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5110379-democrats-battleground-state-senator-retire/
I don't think this convenient two group identity is remotely correct or possible now, and I think this is probably a product of the Brexit years.
So what does have any use? I think Lab+Con v All others (SPLORG) is a useful measure of the crisis the two party system may be in.
I think Con v Lab/LD/SNP is a specific but incomplete indicator of a traditional division.
But neither Greens nor Reform fit properly in a two team formation.
Reform are not Right, Centre Right, Radical Right or Extreme Right in any sense at all. And Greens are not Centre Left.
This needs thought. Someone cleverer than I should write an article. My starting point is that everyone (apart from Greens possibly, but certainly including Reform) are different versions of post WWII social democracy. WRT that starting point, what distinguishes them?
Also IIRC the population of France depends very much on how you count it. There is “metropolitan France” - ie France - and then there’s France plus its overseas territories (about ~2m more? rough guess)
“As of January 2024, Metropolitan France has a population of approximately 66.1 million people. In contrast, the combined population of France, including its overseas departments and territories (DOM-TOM), is about 68.4 million. This means that Metropolitan France accounts for roughly 96.6% of the total population, with the overseas regions contributing the remaining 3.4%. “
I believe the French decided to add the DOM-TOMs to the “national population total” in order to beef up their claim to more MEPs etc
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population?time=1555..latest&showSelectionOnlyInTable=1&country=GBR~FRA
France should be happy with a lower population. It’s one thing that makes France a nicer place to be. Sense of space. Room to breathe. Britain is chocka by contrast - which has real world economic impacts as infrastructure gets ever harder to complete (as someone always lives in the way)
Or is it like the UK where (for example) being a Hong Kong citizen did not give you rights to move to the UK or to vote in UK elections?
Today's 'characters' seem inauthentic compared to these people. The internet has made us poorer for that. Enjoy the clips if you have a few minutes.
https://x.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1883973183373811851
HNY PB 🥳
To be fair to him though, the article does contain this gem:
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, who was an immigration minister between 2019 and 2021 at a time when the net migration figure was surging to its peak, said: “This projection is shocking and unacceptable. It can and must be stopped from materialising.
“Ten million arrivals over 10 years is far too high. We need a binding legal cap on visas issued each year which is very, very substantially lower than this in order to get the numbers down and under control.”
However there is maybe nowhere in France with the noomy sublimity of the Highlands and Islands
What was it you said when someone asked about the AfD the other day "you can't define them because they are an umbrella group for all the opponents of the regime" what utter horseshit!
Are you an AfD supporter?
Anyway, enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIp8vQxDS-M
It's a mad world, my masters.
https://x.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1883975534469865763
That'll be one in the eye of Macron.
Elon in action: https://x.com/iam_smx/status/1883977770709258287