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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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 Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
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| until the Conservatives had completely ruined the party for students and introduced partial grants and loans instead of 100% grants for living expenses.......so I had to borrow 5000 pounds over 3 years to buy my beer with! |
While would have gleefully taken advantage of such opportunities, I must say that this makes the case for reduced government grants in higher education. Tax payers should not subsidize large-scale partying. The champagne and oysters needs to stop. |
I was being glib.........I was also working nights and weekends disco DJing to pay for my beer habit during Uni.
Even in the good old days before the Tories when Uni in UK was fully subsidized the grants were certainly not enough to be a Champagne Charlie......they might have been enough to live on a plain diet, baked beans on toast, fish and chips, and afford a couple of nights drinking cheap beer in the student union bar.
What tax payers were paying for was to have an educated group of young people (from all social classes) able to do the work and research that the country needed to be competitive. Very sensible spending if you ask me. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| until the Conservatives had completely ruined the party for students and introduced partial grants and loans instead of 100% grants for living expenses.......so I had to borrow 5000 pounds over 3 years to buy my beer with! |
While would have gleefully taken advantage of such opportunities, I must say that this makes the case for reduced government grants in higher education. Tax payers should not subsidize large-scale partying. The champagne and oysters needs to stop. |
I was being glib.........I was also working nights and weekends disco DJing to pay for my beer habit during Uni.
Even in the good old days before the Tories when Uni in UK was fully subsidized the grants were certainly not enough to be a Champagne Charlie......they might have been enough to live on a plain diet, baked beans on toast, fish and chips, and afford a couple of nights drinking cheap beer in the student union bar.
What tax payers were paying for was to have an educated group of young people (from all social classes) able to do the work and research that the country needed to be competitive. Very sensible spending if you ask me. |
I'm 100% for fully subsidized tuition, rent, books, and cafeteria meals. But just handing over cash for "general expenses" seems a bit much.
Not that I'd ever refuse it if it was offered and if it was taken away I'd sure be in a foul mood over it.
If I'm a factory owner anti-Union. If I'm a factory worker I'm pro-union.
Power to those who want to get what they can through whatever legal means are out there. |
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