Bloody young people coming over here enriching our cultural and academic institutions.
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Inviting people to your country for an education and making that appealing has for hundreds of years been one of the most effective long-term "soft power" moves a country can do. It naturalises other people to your culture, spreads your ways of thinking, and reinforces relevance in the global consciousness.
Logically, these people should be happy to allow foreign students to be educated in their country and see how 'great' it is.
But one can't assume any capacity for logical thought.
In the UK they also get charged extra for education and end up offsetting our education costs for locals
Maybe in the civilised parts of the country.
Certainly not anywhere they're charging £9.5k per student per year though.
What? Where I am it's like £3-4k
From August 2025, universities in England and Wales may charge up to £9,535 for a full-time degree, or £11,440 for an accelerated degree in England.
Versus a place that regards education as important for all classes of people to access:
If you attend university in Scotland, you can be charged up to £1,820 a year for an undergraduate degree. You don’t need a student loan for this. Instead, the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) will pay your fees for you if you’re eligible. You must apply to SAAS each year for them to do this.
Bloody foreigners coming over here and offsetting our natives' university tuition fees!
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Erasmus is the best money the EU ever spent. Glad to see the UK rejoin it.
But it will affect him. The small number of highly educated people will boost the economy and improve his quality of life in measurable but hard to notice ways. Also if he visits a university town to admire the 'dreaming spires', he'll also see a lot of foreigners to complain about, and he obviously enjoys complaining.
Nobody tell them that Norway and Switzerland also participate in Erasmus. Not to mention it's far from the only way to get a study visa. Or that it usually only lasts about twice as long as the max tourism visa (3 months).
This should never have stopped. The government at the time could have protected it except they were worthless charlatans and lost every negotiation they entered.
Honestly wish we'd kicked all the yobs out instead of leaving the EU... Would've been a better idea, and they would've already self-selected by choosing "leave".
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