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Nathalie Allport-Grantham says an airport employee told her, 'If you want someone to carry your bags, you have to pay £50’

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/new ... 38051.html

My granddaughter has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and although not yet in a wheelchair, she suffers dislocations so regularly we don't even go to hospital now. She just sits quietly for a while then grabs her knee cap/shoulder joint & twists/pushes it back.
Her pain is awful to witness at times.

Articles like this make me see red

Goodnight, PorFavor
The wind and rain got quieter

I think the "US" argument is overdone with lots of stuff. I mean, the UK isn't regarded as world class in many things, so the US (or whoever) in most fields doesn't bother with the UK. I expect in most cases the US thinks "Wow, that's nice you did well in the UK".

But we've got lots of world class universities, and there are lots of established links- David Blanchflower, for one, made the America point. I think it's something we have to watch out for, but I wouldn't say no VCs are overpaid, for sure.

Criticising VC pay isn't populist necessarily, or in most cases, and wasn't in your case, or the UCU's. I think there is an element to it, on which the Times are picking up on. That's what I'm calling "populist", and the UCU have to be a bit careful.

This was the 90s and it definitely hadn't changed around 2000.....after that things started to change as more universities started offering 4 year masters degrees as the entry point and so it became more the norm to have a masters before a PhD - it is also more common on the continent I have seen - but depends on which country

If a masters is a pre-requisite to a PhD it is something that would have only come about since the start of the millennium.....

I am talking here about chemistry which is my subject

I see the point you are making but I am still not at all convinced about this US argument - the universities where the pay is highest do not seem to be ones that I would necessarily consider to be 'world class' and the greatest advantage we have is that we speak English which is why the UK has always been a magnet for foreign students - the rest of the world has caught on to this now and I see this being more and more difficult to maintain

The fact that we are seeing this US argument wheeled out suggests to me that there is not much else to back it up....

@AAW that must be the 21st Century view of disability the Governments keeps prattling on about in the need for reform (ie reduction/more contingency)

Anyway, off to bed.

Night all, as ever enjoyed discussion today.

Good night Tubby.

Theresa May's Brexit team is 'mad, ludicrous and clueless about the economy,' ex-trade minister claims


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01 ... g_share_tw

With that - good night

Seems to me that university vice chancellors are getting corporate pay because the Tories have restructured higher education in a way that is turning universities into corporations. Funding universities via loans to students to pay fees rather than primarily through direct funding has skewed the function and accountability of universities. Where once they were beholden to taxpayers and expected to serve wider society they are now beholden to students and expected to deliver degrees. The focus should be on the politics around university provision and funding, that has been evolving along this path since the 80s. Focusing on individual VCs being paid the kinds of money people are often paid to run businesses is almost like missing the point whilst making the point. It isn't so much that the pay is wrong for the job as the job is no longer what people would expect it to be. Universities have more private paid courses and hired out facilities these days as far as I can tell and it has hardly happened "by accident" or by the actions of individual VCs alone.

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Hidden away down the page in the telegraph (but one they haven't put behind their premium paywall (yet))

Number of pupils in grammar schools at highest level for two decades

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Miserable sod

Segregation very much on the increase in a variety of ways..