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>I can see that Sophia from Switzerland mistakenly believes that "si" in Swiss French has the same meaning as it has in Spanish, also I can see that her entire posting history consists of replies to MB, but she registered a long time ago so either s/he is playing a long game or somebody is good at guessing passwords if this is another troll.
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>>>OTOH in the real world I picked up my son from uni today which was nice and other real things are happening.
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>Must be good to see a child at uni and getting ready to forge their way in the world. For interest, what does your son pay to go to Uni? Maybe we can steer this back to the topic of universal schemes. ;-)

You know I'm not quite sure. There's a tuition fee element and a living expenses element. Some of it unrepayable grant and some is a low cost repayable loan provided by the government.
Used to be that general taxation paid for education in the expectation that a well educated work force would earn more and pay more tax. But as in so many ways my generation is choosing to haul up the ladder as quickly as it can. If I was in my twenties I think I might be getting seriously p___ed off. I'm amazed how little protest there is by young people about how comprehensively they are being stitched up.

I wonder what the lovely Sophia thinks about it all.