Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-13-2010

[andrewducker]

• UK in talks with tax havens in bid to raise £10bn
  (tags: tax uk government)
• The Guardian article on the LibDems and tuition fees is engaging in hyperbole and half-truths
  (tags: education university uk government libdem)
• Schizophrenia may be caused by a virus embedded in our DNA.
  (tags: schizophrenia psychology medicine research health brain)
• Last year 379,030 people had benefits withdrawn for failing to seek work.
  (tags: benefits welfare uk labour)
• Lib Dems discussed abandoning tuition fees pledge to form a coalition _before_ the election.
  (tags: elections libdem government uk education)
• At-a-glance: Benefits overhaul
  (tags: benefits welfare uk)
• Government scraps anonymity pledge for rape accused. And about time too.
  (tags: rape government)
• Investment bankers are to have their company phones tapped. But not their personal ones. Completely pointless.
  (tags: banking mobile)

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

By 'effectively denied to...' I don't mean that they're UNABLE to apply - of course they will be, they could after all take out very large loans. The point is that it's a massive disincentive to take out 40K worth of loans, and that sort of disincentive is going to disproportionately have an effect on people from poorer backgrounds.

As I said before... in the best case your argument indicates that at Cambridge the poorest students are going to have less of a problem (although not all students are even going to KNOW about these bursaries and we DON'T know that they will be around in the future either).

It's not necessarily going to be the case in the future, true at Oxford, or (as you said) true of any other good university. So all my criticisms still stand, even if there's the possibility that IF THEY KNOW ABOUT THEM students applying to Cambridge are going to be less affected.

If the guy on the left (Julian Huppert, who I voted for) does not vote against tuition fees I will do whatever I can to get him out of his seat.