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I'm more pissed about the teaching budget being cut by 40%
not the full picture tho
poorer students now get a better deal the cap is desgined to hurt the better off middle class students.
Also as i understand it its certain subjects that are getting cut like humanties to get students to do sci and tech subject that can help the economy.
.Cuts of 40% to the higher education budget were announced in the spending review on 20 October 2010. But that budget includes student grants, which are unlikely to be significantly cut, as well as the teaching grant, suggesting that teaching funds are likely to face cuts much deeper than 40%.
However, some universities may be able to charge fees high enough to enable them to increase their funding despite the budget cuts.
The government has outlined proposals to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 per year, raising the cap from its current level of £3,290. Universities wanting to charge more than £6,000 would have to undertake measures, such as offering bursaries, summer schools and outreach programmes, to encourage students from poorer backgrounds to apply.
The government would continue to loan students the money for fees. The threshold at which graduates have to start paying their loans back would be raised from £15,000 to £21,000.
Graduates would pay back 9% of their income each month above that threshold.
The subsidised interest rate at which the repayments are made - currently 1.5% - will be raised. Under a "progressive tapering" system, the interest rate will rise from 0 for incomes of £21,000, to 3% plus inflation (RPI) for incomes above £41,000.
If the debt were not cleared 30 years after graduation, it would be wiped out.
Universities Minister David Willetts says universities will only be allowed to charge fees of £9,000 in "exceptional circumstances", which he said might mean if they had high teaching costs, or if a university was offering an intensive two-year course.
Lecturers and university leaders warned that the cuts would have a “massive impact” – forcing institutions to turn away thousands of applicants.
The disclosure comes just 24 hours after Lord Patten, the chancellor of Oxford, called for the Government to abolish the "preposterous" £3,225 cap on student tuition fees to allow universities to maintain their world-class status.
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, said: “Anyone who thinks this won’t massively impact on the quality of education in this country is living in a dream world.
“The consequences of the cuts will be building projects on hold, class sizes growing where jobs are lost, thousands of students denied access to university and staff following them to the dole queue.”
Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group, said: “Today’s allocations will pose real challenges for Russell Group universities. A decrease in money for teaching in the coming academic year comes at a time when there is an existing shortfall in teaching funding.
"Our competitors in Europe, Asia and the US are pouring more resources into higher education as a strategy for coming out of recession."
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I work on Whitehall in London - we were trapped in the building for more than an hour because they had to close all the entrances...
I work on Whitehall in London - we were trapped in the building for more than an hour because they had to close all the entrances...
Could you throw eggs at them from the window?
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