If you could study any subject, what would it be?

I'm With Stupid said:
I don't think anyone's been given a massive government grant to study a degree for decades.
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Directly not, but indirectly absolutely they are. The teaching grant has declined but still represents a very significant proportion of university funding. When you consider that UK universities charge foreign students between £10k and £20k per year (more for medicine) and the fee cap for UK students is £9k, or less in NI and Scotland.
 
Chippy_boy said:
Directly not, but indirectly absolutely they are. The teaching grant has declined but still represents a very significant proportion of university funding. When you consider that UK universities charge foreign students between £10k and £20k per year (more for medicine) and the fee cap for UK students is £9k, or less in NI and Scotland.
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Only 10% of university funding for teaching purposes comes from the government. A further 15% is for research. Universities rip off foreign students because they can, not because that's how much it costs to teach them. It doesn't, for example, cost 20k a year to give someone five hours of history lectures a week and access to a library, but that's what you'd pay as an international student.

Of course in reality, far more of the teaching costs will eventually be paid by the government, because they've tried to trick everyone into thinking that being liable for private loans that most people won't pay back isn't the same thing as government debt.
 
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