DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived Cleggeron era

* insert snide DG comment here *

Leeds Metropolitan has become the first of the newer, less selective group of universities to officially announce its new fee level.

The former polytechnic and member of Million+ group of newer universities has said it will charge £8,500 for all full-time undergraduates from 2012.

lol

oo, £500 off!

million+: Universities and students both losers from Browne
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i have it on fairly good authority that the tories and civil servants who cooked this up are *genuinely surprised* that universities are pushing for the top rate. i don't believe it, but that's the line they apparently give, even outside of media briefings.

that means they're either liars or idiots, i meant to say

Or both.

Idiots wins by a short head

are ppl actually going to go to places like leeds met at those fees idk

iirc some of the better universities said/intimated they would charge the maximum before the legislation was passed

they sure did

from the universities' point of view, it's the only way to cover the 80% cut in the teaching grant

but the bigger question, whether it's fair to lumber leeds met graduates with a probable £50k+ debt is...

idk, i teach at an ex-poly now so have mixed feelings. maybe i shd go private, lecturing without the BS. just need a strong marketing team.

the bigger question, whether it's fair to lumber leeds met graduates with a probable £50k+ debt is...

that isn't even a question

lookin forward to whichever ex-poly offers no frills degrees at a mere £5k p/a

Ha, was going to do a pun crossing name of a low price airline with the qualification, but it exists already...

http://www.easydegree.org/header-easydegree.org.jpg

"tesco value degree"
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even:

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kinda feel its unfair of ucas not to point out to prospective students that 'metropolitan' in a university name translates as 'total bollocks'

From what I remember Leeds Met runs quite a lot of vocational degrees, which you might argue represent better value for many punters than a BA in Fannying Around with Roman Pots from a redbrick.

How is Roman Potts these days?

kinda feel its unfair of ucas not to point out to prospective students that 'metropolitan' in a university name translates as 'total bollocks'

LOL, true

Always cool to see ILX taking the Telegraph line.

Feel there's a song in there somewhere

"We're gonna hang out our dirty washing..."

"The Telegraph Lineman is still on the liiiiiiiiinne"

dee-deet dee-deet dee-deet-dee-deet deedle deedle

as an ex-employee of a 'metropolitan' university i would say that a) the 'telegraph line' (assuming the 'telegraph line' is kinda the same as my last post) is otm b) if i had kids i wouldn't let them go to one of these under any circumstances

are you in london dg? london met is kind of uniquely fraudulent (ie, it literally committed fraud).

oh yeah i know abt them but still, b)^^^, they're not worth it

http://startupbritain.org/

'millions of success stories haven't been written yet'

bleugh- http://twitter.com/#!/dragonjones/status/52338400065372160

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jones of course living high on the hog off the royalties of that band he signed

"from the universities' point of view, it's the only way to cover the 80% cut in the teaching grant"

For humanities/social science students I think all English universities currently receive about £1500 per head teaching grant from HEFCE. Additional tuition fee paid by the student = about £3200.

am i wrong?

Mug a hoodie.

Public sector spending cuts encouraging the Big Society in action

After his death she set up a number of foundations that aimed to tackle the UK drinking culture as well as providing support to young people. Newlove was given a peerage in the 2010 Dissolution Honours list and sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative.[1]

wonder how the UK's drinking figures look plotted against a graph of which tosser's Prime Minister?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/alcohol_consum.jpg
Looks like Wilson and Blair drove most people to the booze.

nice one but harsh on Wilson. It starts trending up in the 60s I guess but the fat numbers are 75-ish on imo

Not as much as Queen Victoria did!

Looks like Wilson and Blair drove most people to the booze.

This gets left out of all those excitable Britpop documentaries.

Nice ad: http://itn.co.uk/970622d497a6b533d5475992da7dc96f.html

This can only lead to cheating at PMQs.

she's getting better, anyway

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7653913/General-Election-2010-Kerry-McCarthy-illegally-publishes-election-vote-results-on-Twitter.html

i didn't know that nobody drank wine until 1970s!

or cider!!

was cider invented in 1945?

Helen Newlove has since joined forces with the local and national media, in particular The Sun newspaper, to campaign for a clampdown on gangs like the one who claimed her husband's life, with heavier prison sentences and a return of the death penalty for murder.[11]

ugh fuckin conservative party

what a disaster for murderers

what a disaster for murderers those convicted of murder

iirc its illegal in the eu anyway so i dont know why people cling to the fantasy of bringing it back (or leaving the eu obv)