Met a student tonight

but............... was she fit?

Originally Posted by hovis

but............... was she fit?

Hear hear.. that's all that matters.

[timwilky]

As an egg but twice as runny


Had the wife with me, so polite conversation only.

[G]

Originally Posted by glade

does the tax payer still fund higher education?

Yeah they pay for Wales and Scotland who get University, amongst other things like prescriptions for FREE.

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

Yeah they pay for Wales and Scotland who get University, amongst other things like prescriptions for FREE.

The second word is off, ill-informed person.

[G]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

The second word is off, ill-informed person.

But the daily mail said it was so.......

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

But the daily mail said it was so.......

Wales and Scotland get about the same per person to spend as England.

They just choose to spend it differently.

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

Still, I get to wear a lab coat and shiny safety specs and look really clever, thats worth alot

My hero

[tigersaw]

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

But the daily mail said it was so.......

The Welsh do get free pescriptions, and they get a non assessed grant of 1.8K towards their uni tuition fees each year - I asked.
It works out cheaper for me to semi retire to wales and become a uni student, (thus paying no council tax) than to stay where I am with the 2k council tax bill.

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

Still, I get to wear a lab coat and shiny safety specs and look really clever, thats worth alot

Definitely the best thing about doing a science degree

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

TBH I think I've doen better with huge amounts of life skills than paper qualifications, if that makes any sense

I would prefer to have more life skills and so I do my best at gaining them via 1) jobs and 2) voluntary work where I can get it. Seems to work, but then I have to juggle all that with actually doing the work for my degree which is damn time consuming, there are never enough days in the week!


On the subject of Wales, a Welsh friend of mine studying Maths is practically paid to come to uni as well as being clever enough to get scholarships and all the rest of it. I don't envy the amount of work he has to do though, maths...