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Re: IP ( was Re: LP POINT 1
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Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:12:59 GMT
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Scott A wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > > > > > As much as you want?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have had free education - pre-school to PhD.
> > > >
> > > > What if you wanted more education? And how did you afford to eat and • stay
> > out
> > > > of the rain while pursuing your free education.
> > >
> > > The state paid my to be a student. Not very much, but enough to mean I • could
> > > concentre of my studies - rather than flipping burgers.
> >
> > Do they do that for everyone or just a few?
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> Everyone.
It used to be that students got grants to go to uni in the UK, but I thought
that now (I have been away for nearly 20 years, so I'm going by what I hear
from family still living there) that's no longer so - they are moving/have
moved to loans instead, similar to what's the system in the US and Canada.
And I must say even while I was there, grants were not universally available
(there was a means test, which the NUS (National Union of Students) was
always complaining about) - my parents paid part of my costs, and more of my
younger sister's. Even less available for postgraduate study - I only
remember grants being available for undergraduate degrees. I'm sure the
system has changed several times between 1981 and now, though.
Kevin
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| (...) I was talking about when I was a student. I think in an other of my posts I say that the system is now means tested. However, even children of high earners pay only a token amount towards education (a ninth). (...) Not now, they are in bed (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Everyone. (...) If I was from a low income background it would be free. Other wise, I'd have to pay a notioanl amount towards my degree (phd & school education would still be free). (...) Free inside the EU. (...) Understament. Americans do (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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