Interesting Links for 20-09-2019

[andrewducker]

UK cannot meet EU deadline for Brexit plan and needs another year, government says

(tags:UK Europe incompetence OhForFucksSake )

Reviewing Tolkien

(tags:Tolkien movies review )

Outcry as Saga travel firm advertises cruise 'exclusively for Brits'

(tags:travel UK racism OhForFucksSake )

Green light for £314m overhaul of Edinburgh centre

(tags:transport city Edinburgh )

How a Nazi-punching satire led to the first union drive at a well-known tech company—and, workers say, the firing of two organizers in eight days.

(tags:Nazis Kickstarter unions OhForFucksSake )

Asylum seeker denied cancer treatment by Home Office dies

(tags:cancer death OhForFucksSake migration asylum )

Global dimming isn't worth taking into consideration

(tags:globalwarming pollution )

I may have to make one of these!

(tags:food wtf eggs )

New windfarms in the UK don't need subsidies

(tags:subsidies windpower uk electricity environment )

Sertraline: Antidepressant works by reducing anxiety symptoms

(tags:antidepressants anxiety psychology )

Comments

[rangifer]

Possibly! I think Wikipedia is a touch off the mark here. Tuition fees are almost always prohibited, but exceptions are made for a handful of foreign-language schools like this one. I also believe university students from outside the EU/EEA are required to pay tuition fees these days. (The latter is a pretty new development, so it's no surprise Wikipedia isn't up to date.)

Entrance examinations are generally standard for upper secondary education and vocation schools, and for anything above that. I'm not sure what the Wikipedia editor means by "selective admission", but there's certainly a whole grab-bag of laws in place designed to prevent discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, gender, and the like.