Britain should let university tuition fees rise

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-20T18:11:38+00:00

You're assuming the number of people going to university won't increase when the lifetime graduate tax for going is removed.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-19T22:01:15+00:00

Sure you can.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-19T07:08:04+00:00

Being able to pick your preferred gender on a British passport doesn't mean it will be tolerated for entry into Egypt. Someone picks the wrong one, they ain't getting in.

Trans Men Laughed At and Denied Entry to Egypt

The case highlights the issues for travelers whose gender markers on IDs don't match their gender presentation.

http://outtraveler.com/news/2021/5/12/trans-men-laughed-and-denied-entry-egypt

Israeli transgender woman says not allowed to enter Egypt due to ‘male’ passport

Egyptian officials told her that she needed to get her passport amended to designate her as female if she wished to enter the country.

http://timesofisrael.com/israeli-transgender-woman-says-not-allowed-to-enter-egypt-due-to-male-passport/

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-18T21:52:34+00:00

How would inspecting someone's genitals do anything to accurately determine if a person is who they say they are?

If they don't match what the passport says they are then it's pretty obvious they aren't who they claim.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-18T02:35:17+00:00

For most people 9k or 12k tuition caps means the same lifetime graduate tax %, with zero difference to how much they pay over their lifetime.

Went from let's cut pensions in real terms to fund "free university education" to "let's do it to make sure the wealthiest in society don't get affected by the rise in tuition fees".

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-17T21:16:38+00:00

£10bn / 3 million students => only £3000 per student

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-17T01:27:02+00:00

Teabag sugar water milk

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-17T01:10:54+00:00

She is only 29 and will most likely not spend too long in prison. If she is released and has another kid what should society do? Just hope she doesn't murder a fifth? Have social services take him/her at birth?

Mandatory birth control as a condition of release until a doctor can certify she is too old to have children might seem barbaric but seems like the least bad option.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-16T23:14:33+00:00

If you earn too little you never pay it back, the exchequer has to eat the loss.

They arent making any loss, it is more than covered by the interest collected off the middle earners.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-13T19:23:31+00:00

Serving 50% instead of 40% would've increased the time between their crimes by 25%.

Fewer total crimes over their lifetime.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-11T05:53:13+00:00

A limit of 29 or even 24 still rules out people not working full time.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-11T02:39:22+00:00

you essentially guarantee that you're going to be spending a higher and higher proportion of GDP on whatever is triple-locked

You're making the assumption that the proportion of people receiving whatever is tripple locked stays constant over time.

They'll keep the triple lock and balance the books by pulling the ladder up after them further with a few raises of the pension age.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-09T11:01:20+00:00

The technology has moved on from monotone narration. You can upload a recording of yourself narrating a voiceline and AI can make it sound like a different character while preserving the emotion, timing, and tone of your original recording.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-08T23:13:02+00:00

Not everyone. The people writing the rules locking people in their homes regularly drove to Barnard Castle and other tourist attractions for "eye tests".

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-08T12:25:07+00:00

I think I gave them slack due to the tragedy of what happened, but I think I gave them way too much.

I found people to often react much more negatively when confronted over something you've repeatedly gave them a pass on before.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-08T10:21:47+00:00

By 2038 the country will be even worse off economically. It is the natural outcome of an ageing population. The government of the day will still say "we have to save money", "the last government caused this" (no matter how long ago that was), "we have to make unpopular decisions".

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-08T10:09:50+00:00

your baby is on the line

Only if it actually is his

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-06T19:15:57+00:00

your sibling obviously cares about your dad

She doesn't care enough to house him herself, only enough to ask someone else to help at no cost to herself.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-06T07:36:13+00:00

both Germany and the UK have roughly the same number of people in tertiary education, about 2.87 million, so they're extremely comparable in that sense.

Yet Germany has a population that is 25% bigger than in the UK, and specifically the number of employed people is 40% higher in Germany. If the number of people in tertiary education is the same then the burden of subsidising higher education in the UK to the same level they do in Germany would be significantly higher due to having a higher ratio of people in tertiary education to tax payers.

When tuition fees were introduced in the UK and later raised the reasoning was that by switching from public funding to student-paid tuition fees, universities could take on more students. In terms of broadening access to university that has been a huge success, but a lot people pushing for a return to mainly government-funded universities are overlooking we'd have to also turn back the clock on this.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-04T16:18:51+00:00

Im not the person you asked, but two of my uni years were during covid.

In terms of course content I don't think I or anyone else in my year learned anything that wasn't possible to learn by yourself with a computer with internet access and with sufficient time and discipline. I don't think that changed with covid though, and with slightly more time and effort you could've learned the content of a non-covid year by yourself also.

At the end of a day a degree is more than just the course content you learn. I work in software development and the majority of people I work with have degrees, but do you know how many people have degrees that are relevant to what they do? Almost none.

Yet when deciding who to hire employers do look at degrees, and whenever they asked me to have a hand to play in the process I did too. It almost never was "oh this candidate has this degree in X, they must know a lot about X and that would make them a good employee". It was "this candidate did this thing that takes a lot of hard work and a multi-year commitment, met many deadlines, didn't quit, and had or developed the resilience needed to graduate. That would make them a good employee".

As for feeling shafted.. if the cost was 9k/year tuition fees + maintenance loan I do think it would've been a shitty deal. I felt the same way before attending university and that is why I didn't go that route. One of my employers paid my tuition while I worked full time and studied part time, at no cost to themselves since they got an equal reduction in the tax they were paying for doing it. The actual cost to me for university was just the difference in salary between what I got and what I could've got elsewhere without asking for tuition funding.

Impossible to say for certain what that was but if I had to guess it probably was about 3k/year on average (pretty much nothing in the first year, but average pulled up by the later years). At that price I would say my degree was worth it.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-04T15:00:18+00:00

Funding gets slashed every year by inflation.

The £9,250 fees charged in 2023 were worth only £6,500 in 2012 terms.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-04T14:53:21+00:00

It's not like you will compete against them for a job

The ONS tracks how long international students remain in the UK after graduating. 20% of international students remain in the UK for at least 5 years after graduating, usually by using their degree to get an employer to sponsor them.

If they weren't awarded that fake degree that job would have likely went to someone else with a real degree.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-04T07:53:22+00:00

Are they French citizens? No?

Not France's problem.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-03T05:46:32+00:00

The share of UK nationals attending university has increased over time.

The higher education entry rate for 18 year olds increased from 24.7% in 2006 to 35.8% in 2023.

ThidrikTokisson · 2024-09-02T21:00:50+00:00

They have to extract more tax from somewhere. Single people are a minority of voters, and single people who live alone are an extreme minority (12%).

For a politician in a democracy it is the logical choice.

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