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https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/uk-he-funding-fixed-in-1300-words-kinda/ Purity * Truth * Beauty Fri, 13 May 2011 11:01:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/uk-he-funding-fixed-in-1300-words-kinda/#comment-92 Fri, 13 May 2011 11:01:19 +0000 http://fotapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/uk-he-funding-fixed-in-1300-words-kinda#comment-92 Fair enough, but I think conceding the argument that the societal gains are greater and more predictable than the personal gains is a strategic error. I don’t think I’ve even heard politicians *explicitly* doing so, and only a few members of the non-unversity-educated public.Maybe I hang out with the wrong people, though; perhaps the previous government was hearing it more from their voting base before they introduced fees?!

]]> https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/uk-he-funding-fixed-in-1300-words-kinda/#comment-91 Fri, 13 May 2011 10:55:22 +0000 http://fotapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/uk-he-funding-fixed-in-1300-words-kinda#comment-91 @Alex – first up I’m not prescribing anything… to paraphrase Sir Humphrey Appleby I’m saying “if we must do this damn foolish thing, let’s not do it in this damn foolish way”.Policy is the art of the compromise… if there must “politically” be a way of linking personal benefits to contributions to educational comments then this is the fairest one I can think of. I’m not saying it’s the right thing to do, I’m saying that this is the least harmful way of doing it.

]]> https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/uk-he-funding-fixed-in-1300-words-kinda/#comment-90 Fri, 13 May 2011 10:06:12 +0000 http://fotapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/uk-he-funding-fixed-in-1300-words-kinda#comment-90 It would appear from your link to theuniversityblog’s “How real is the graduate earning premium?” article that you’re somewhat skeptical (as am I) about the lifetime personal economic advantage of being a graduate.That being so, how do you reconcile that with your prescription for a graduate tax, rather than just increasing income tax? Surely if society as a whole benefits from having graduates, and the personal benefits are unpredictable and/or marginal, the costs should be shared?

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