NB my partner (who works in HE) says: “students arriving in 2012 were under the mistaken impression that we (the university) now had 3x as much money to spend on them, when in fact we had no more tha… (View Post)

As has been pointed out, it’s a competitive market & the UK has full employment right now. If you (as an employer) don’t spend what it takes to snag an employee, somebody else will. The reason wa… (View Post)

& now they’re all charging £6.5k in real terms and universities are completely reliant on income from foreign students to keep the lights on. This is not a recipe for stability & economic gro… (View Post)

This is like asking “since when does income tax reduce your disposable income”. You cost your employer a pot of money per year & X% of that goes in taxes. Whether some portion of that X% appears … (View Post)

The student loan thing is particularly galling since (as I understand things, I’m sure there was a recent article about this in the Economist or somewhere similar?) it would have been /cheaper/ just … (View Post)