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Absolutely unbelievable. You might wonder which of the two is being abusive here.
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Ministers could limit student numbers on lower-earning arts degrees in England
The government is considering new plans to limit the number of students studying creative arts and other degrees with lower salary returns as part of its spending review negotiations, the Guardian has learned.
With outstanding student loans reaching £140bn last year, the Treasury is understood to be keen to reduce the number of students in England studying courses producing lower salaries and therefore less likely to pay back their loans. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... rt-degrees
Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 11:00 am This reads like a tick box composition of everything the Tories despiseNot a jot of realisation that jacking fees up to 9K and funding it through loans might have created a bigger liability than the old system of grants.
Ministers could limit student numbers on lower-earning arts degrees in England
The government is considering new plans to limit the number of students studying creative arts and other degrees with lower salary returns as part of its spending review negotiations, the Guardian has learned.
With outstanding student loans reaching £140bn last year, the Treasury is understood to be keen to reduce the number of students in England studying courses producing lower salaries and therefore less likely to pay back their loans. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... rt-degrees
Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:59 pmIt's not about economics, it's about ideology.
Not a jot of realisation that jacking fees up to 9K and funding it through loans might have created a bigger liability than the old system of grants.
Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:56 pm My understanding was that the old system (which I was one of the last to benefit from) was based on the understanding that funding higher education was an investment in society - we pay for people to go to university and become doctors, architects, librarians, teachers and a load of other things because when they graduate, their skills will serve us all. And on another level, the same for apprenticeships. Whatever the rights or wrongs of Blair's push for more people to go into HE, all I get from the government since 2010 is, as Malcolm says, ideological. University for a gilded elite, the sort of people who'd prefer a place to go to Toby Young than to a smart kid from a council estate.Blair's push was right, and accepted by the Cameron governments. Of course, Cable held the brief and could offer some sort of protection to universities, but had Cameron seen them as a fundamental battle ground, he'd have stuck in somebody like John Hayes to fuck Cable about. Instead, Cable had David Willets, who is pretty sensible. Then he put Jo Johnson in the job, also a sensible one, and May kept him on, despite her being more interested in vocational training than Cameron, and replaced him with Chris Skidmore, again relatively sensible.
The UK government has awarded a new £347m Covid-19 testing contract to Randox, the Tory-linked private healthcare company whose testing kits had to be recalled over the summer because of concerns about contamination.Just business, you know.
The deal is a six-month extension of an existing contract and was agreed without other companies being invited to bid. It means the health secretary, Matt Hancock, has now approved transfers of nearly half a billion pounds in taxpayer funds to the Northern Ireland-based company since the pandemic began...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... d-contract
The disclosure raises fresh questions about Paterson’s continuing work for Randox, and the efficacy of the code of conduct for MPs, which is supposed to limit their work as paid lobbyists and regulate access to ministers.Don't worry, be happy.
“Legislators must not also be lobbyists,” said a spokesperson for the campaign group Transparency International.
The Green party MP Caroline Lucas said: “We urgently need an independent inquiry into where public money is going as many firms who have benefited seem to have links to the Tory party or individual ministers.
“The lack of transparency around Covid-related contracts is a scandal. At the very least, ministers owe MPs an explanation, and we are still not getting one.”..
Iain Duncan Smith said the investigators’ report “shows this system is completely broken and has been for some time”. The former Conservative party leader told the Guardian: “The more I read the report, the more I became concerned and it backed up my view that we should abandon this process and go for a quasi-judicial one with QCs and judges.Funny, nobody seemed confused by the process before. What's "quasi judicial" anyway? Sounds like he wants it done in court.
“It’s currently a very bad process that doesn’t know if it’s a prosecutor or just an investigator and it gives MPs no chance of appeal. It is deeply unfair; it’s time that we reset this and brought it to a quasi-judicial process.”
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