GOGSoc goes forth

I'm not so sure on the issue of HE funding I'm afraid, lets not forget who commissioned Browne in the first place. EMA and AimHigher may have stayed, but without the cash elsewhere their effects would have become more limited. [...]

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Terrorism in Sweden? Strange, most strange.

In short, having started university in 1998 and been part of HE until late 2008 (i.e. for most of the New Labour reign I can't agree that they've made fairly positive changes to HE - their ideas on measuring research were ridiculous, their changes to funding of research were a direct attack on young researchers, their lack of focus on how to expand HE were also a failure (and precisely why HE is so vulnerable to cuts now) and their imposition of fees was unforgivable.

Yeah that happened to me too Uni is getting to the stage of itchy feet now, I really want to move on and try my hand at something new. I've not been in for nearly 3 months and am now regularly avoiding uni "events" as I much prefer to be in Cardiff. I'm sure it's not supposed to be this way though.

Playing Trivial Pursuit in another language is hard

Ahh genius:

Commissioning the Browne report and acting upon its advice are two separate things; the coalition government prove that. Nevertheless, I would not have been able to move into further education (and then into higher education) without EMA so there is a sharp contrast between Conservative and Labour policy with regards to educational access, and in this respect I am in complete agreement with Craghyrax. No matter how the cuts would have come under Labour they would have ensued that access was still possible; the Conservatives seem happy enough to abandon an entire generation on Jobseekers.

I don't understand where this selective amnesia is coming from? Why would we have any reason at all to assume that Nu-Lab wouldn't have followed the Browne report almost in its entirety? They seem to use every other opportunity to implement increases in fees possible.

EMA isn't decided yet, so we'll wait and see. A phased withdrawal to match the Education Act 2008 compulsory age increases seems perfectly sensible to me.

I don't understand where this selective amnesia is coming from? Why would we have any reason at all to assume that Nu-Lab wouldn't have followed the Browne report almost in its entirety? They seem to use every other opportunity to implement increases in fees possible.

EMA isn't decided yet, so we'll wait and see. A phased withdrawal to match the Education Act 2008 compulsory age increases seems perfectly sensible to me.

I don't understand where this selective amnesia is coming from? Why would we have any reason at all to assume that Nu-Lab wouldn't have followed the Browne report almost in its entirety? They seem to use every other opportunity to implement increases in fees possible.

Getting too close to the higher band tax rate are ye

I'm confused. What exactly do you want GOGsoc to be? These kinds of posts are funny once, might raise a smirk a second time, but every single time anyone dares to post something that might come under the broad bracket of "politics" you pop in and make this kind of post ... I do wonder what it is you're after.

If you don't like, change the topic of the thread.

I have to say I agree with Adorno - I view GOGsoc like a pub for graduates, so have no issue with people discussing whatever they would in a social setting, be it ranting about work/students/academics, discussing politics or chatting about football.

Sorry, I was a bit curt in that post. It's just that, well ... I guess I don't really understand how a person who has gotten to the stage of doing postdoc application forms doesn't have a view about the world around them, about the politics of the world around them? I mean, you're hardly A.L.F. are you