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   NAB 🇬🇧🇪🇺🔶:marmite: (nab@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 19:12:19 JST NAB 🇬🇧🇪🇺🔶:marmite:

   So The Sunday Times are reporting that universities are offering much lower grades for admittance to foreign students willing to pay ££££s than they are to UK students.
   Well now, who'd have thought that turning universities into businesses would see them start to behave like... businesses?

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 19:12:18 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @NAB do "UK" students not also have to pay crippling levels of fees in England? Does this mean they have to pay high fees and also face restricted spaces? Doesn't sound like a great system, to be honest. Why would English politicians tout it as superior to to other systems in place in other parts of the "UK"? Why would anyone believe them?

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 19:38:18 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Opus DEI

     @pikesley @NAB Britain is real. The UK is not. The constant interchangeable use of England and UK is irritating at best.

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     Opus DEI (pikesley@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 19:38:20 JST Opus DEI

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     • Mrs Cloudy

     @CloudyMrs @NAB Britain isn't real

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 19:41:23 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Chris Armstrong

     @Rhodium103 @pikesley @NAB who is "we"? We were founded in the 9th century when Kenneth MacAlpine, added the Pictish kingdom to his own. In about the 10th century the land came to be known as Scotland.
     Hee haw to do with anyone known as "Conqueror".

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     Chris Armstrong (rhodium103@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 19:41:24 JST Chris Armstrong

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     • Mrs Cloudy

     @pikesley @CloudyMrs @NAB
     We were founded a thousand years ago by a man named "The Conqueror". Our 'top' universities are almost as old and haven't changed much since. One of the flags has a dragon on it. The king is canonically descended from a Norse god and must touch a magical object to be crowned. We are continually at war with The North.

     We are not a real country, we are a cut-price low-fantasy novel.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 19:43:58 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Opus DEI

     @pikesley @NAB I'm looking out the window. The island of Great Britain is real. The other faff of flags and shared history is almost entirely made up.

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     Opus DEI (pikesley@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 19:43:59 JST Opus DEI

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     • Mrs Cloudy

     @CloudyMrs @NAB trust me, I live here, there's no way this is a real place

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 05:47:24 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Alexander The 1st

     @AT1ST @NAB Scottish students don't pay any tuition fees. This upsets politicians from parties who think England does everything better.

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     Alexander The 1st (at1st@mstdn.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 05:47:25 JST Alexander The 1st

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     • Mrs Cloudy

     @CloudyMrs @NAB If it's like British Columbia here, typically "International Students" pay 3x as much for the exact same tuition as the "Local Citizenry Students". Plus, you know, they essentially *have* to pay for housing, food, and the visa application to even come here as I understand.

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     Alexander The 1st (at1st@mstdn.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:01:39 JST Alexander The 1st

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     • Mrs Cloudy

     @CloudyMrs @NAB I'm not thinking Scotland when I'm saying "International Students".

     I'm thinking, like Brazil, Germany, France, and Japan.

     They end up paying more tuition fees here in B.C.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:01:39 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Alexander The 1st

     @AT1ST @NAB I think we're at crossed purposes.

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     Alexander The 1st (at1st@mstdn.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:53:15 JST Alexander The 1st

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     • Mrs Cloudy

     @CloudyMrs @NAB Ah, fair. If you're considering it compared to Scotland, yeah - ideally, post secondary education should be free for tuition.

     I was mainly mentioning that the British locals certainly may pay a lot, but international students will likely be paying well past those fees.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:53:15 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Alexander The 1st

     @AT1ST @NAB you're missing the differences between systems in the nations that make up the UK. The idea that overseas students will pay to study is pretty standard. The point I'm making is aimed at English based politicians who point at Scotland and claim it's somehow more unfair there than anywhere else in the UK. Truth is that it's the same for visiting students but more accessible for local students, and that really pisses them off.