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Originally Posted by Pierre
Of course.
The point I'm making is that, 40hrs is accepted as a normal working week.
But let's add on top of that at least a couple of extra hours a day, minimum, of extra effort that you should be expected to put in.
That = 50hrs a week of available time for study and work, and I think that is quite conservative, and doesn't include weekends.
So out of that 50hrs - 10hrs direct time for lectures, leaves 40hrs a week.
Even if you use a further 25hrs of that for the rest of your study that would still leave 15hrs a week.
15hrs a week at minimum wage for 50weeks year would still bring in £4,500 a year, less any deductions.
So there's a way of mitigating the increase in tuition fees.
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I disagree regarding the numbers. I think it's a bit silly to expect students to spend 50 hours a week working/studying. There's more to Uni than that.
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Originally Posted by Osem
Sorry but where have I ever claimed they caused all of it or that there couldn't possibly have been any such problems under a different government? I said they were responsible and the fact that certain other governments around the world were just as inept or even worse doesn't excuse our former leaders one jot. Having said that, as the major financial centre outside NY, what was allowed to happen in the City right under the nose of Brown directly affected many other countries and it was the abject failure of the regulatory system set up on his watch that allowed things to get as bad as they did.
Not quite the same as saying none of it would have happened under the Tories....  |
OK fair enough. I was just pointing out that it's as naive to say that Labour where not to blame as it is to say they were 100% to blame. As usual, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.