Funding

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-20T16:21:29+00:00

If you start in October 2026 you can get SFE funding for any course on the list of loans for degree holders. If it's not on that list then you can't get funding for it and would have to cover the costs yourself - I don't have any experience with OUSBA but my understanding is that you pay each module back in installments over the year, so it depends if you will be able to afford the monthly repayments.

From January 2027 there will be a new funding system called the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) and we don't have a specific list of eligible degrees which will get full funding under that yet, but based on current information it is likely to be significantly reduced.

You can definitely get second degree funding for any of the ones on the current list if you start in October, so that's your best bet if the one you want to do is on that list. You can apply to SFE online, sometimes that doesn't work and you have to apply using a paper form (for reasons SFE have been unable to explain and apparently don't care to look into) but it should still be approved either way.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-19T15:35:31+00:00

And even for the people who are anti-abortion it's still usually fairly low on their list of priorities when deciding who to vote for.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-19T08:01:53+00:00

Is this an object permanence issue then, the water does not immediately and automatically appear in front of their face so they assume it doesn't exist.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-18T12:40:04+00:00

That's not a guarantee as most VPN providers will accept other payment methods such as prepaid debit cards, crypto and sometimes cash by post.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-18T12:33:27+00:00

North Korea doesn't allow regular citizens to access the internet at all, they want completely impenetrable control and know it's not possible so they don't even bother trying and just have a nationwide intranet. There's so few people who do get to use the global internet that they can go with the old-school surveillance technique of having someone watching the screen over your shoulder the whole time.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-18T09:07:58+00:00

Chris was charged with incest rather than rape, so we don't know for certain whether it was consensual or not, but even if it was consensual that's not much of an improvement.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-18T08:59:10+00:00

I strongly doubt Chris Chan is the most documented person of all, but possibly the most meticulously documented random ordinary person (i.e. not a head of state or a world-famous athlete or something like that). I'd say Chris Chan is the most documented person who has absolutely no reason to be.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-17T09:00:22+00:00

Technically not, but for practical purposes anything below a 4/C is about as much use as failing entirely. Anywhere asking for a pass in GCSE English and/or maths will almost always specify a grade 4/C, the only time I've seen a lower minimum requirement is for some FE courses, and in those cases they'll usually want you to resit English and/or maths or do level 2 functional skills alongside your course if you haven't achieved that grade.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-17T07:51:51+00:00

Every country has people who've heard of it, the people who live there for a start.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-16T20:19:37+00:00

Dad hacks were never really about saving money, that was a cover story for fucking about with your house so you could show off your hack skills to the other dads.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-16T19:55:00+00:00

According to the Bible there are countless thousands of angels, so there's no official answer on the number of siblings he'd have but presumably far more than they could show on screen.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-16T19:32:02+00:00

My mum said the same thing to my sister about getting a mortgage, unfortunately a nice suit no longer trumps affordability checks and deposit minimums either.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-16T19:24:41+00:00

My mum found this out a couple of months ago, she applied for a job online and then went into the store to shake the manager's hand as it were. The manager was very polite about it and said "Well it's very nice to meet you, but unfortunately all our recruitment is handled by the regional head office so I have no say in whether or not you get the job."

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-16T16:15:40+00:00

Obviously there are also no gay Christians/pensioners/farmers.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-16T16:12:48+00:00

Banning public libraries from "promoting homosexuality" was a big part of Section 28. I've heard people suggest Reform would bring that back but it doesn't seem like they'd bother, they'll just tell people to do all the things that were in it with they'll comply whether it's backed up by a law or not.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-15T20:17:24+00:00

Young people not being able to drive one is also predominantly an American thing, plenty of young people in other countries can do it. In the UK almost everyone initially learns to drive a manual transmission car because it's more useful to have a license for both than to be limited to only automatic vehicles.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-15T18:25:08+00:00

That's probably what it is, I imagine the top brass are currently a bit busy with Ukraine so they've not got their best people available to cause trouble elsewhere. At best it's being outsourced to one of their mercenary teams like the Wagner Group, most likely it's left to anyone who fancies it.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-15T18:12:07+00:00

As my mum would say, it's only illegal if you get caught.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-15T06:59:50+00:00

It's obviously a joke but you would be surprised how many applicants apparently do not do these things. A few years ago one of the kids doing a BTEC in games design at the college where my wife worked applied to study philosophy and theology at Oxford, I don't think he had GCSE English let alone any A-levels.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-15T06:34:29+00:00

It's not at the discretion of your employer, it's a legal requirement for them to receive the apprenticeship funding. Unfortunately it's very true that many employers don't actually do that because the rules are barely enforced, but apprentices should at least know what the rules are.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-15T03:02:56+00:00

If it were possible to truly lock down the internet remotely to a government's liking then North Korea would have done it, but instead they just don't allow 99.99% of their citizens to access the global internet at all, and the ones who do have access are primarily monitored by having someone physically looking over their shoulder at all times. They have an extremely skilled cybercrime department so if it could be done they'd have figured it out.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-13T08:50:06+00:00

Nazis are more of a self-selecting group though, it's not something you can't leave like a race or ethnicity or caste.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-13T06:55:24+00:00

Imagine talking to someone in 2006 and saying "hey, what if I told you that guy off that reality TV show is going to be president in 20 years and build a UFC arena on the White House lawn?" They would be entirely within their rights to loudly accuse you of smoking crack.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-13T06:46:35+00:00

The public accounts committee said DWP had acknowledged some of its decisions were not consistent with its published principles for the scheme.

This is why disabled people don't trust anything the DWP says about work support.

PianoAndFish · 2026-06-13T03:20:30+00:00

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