@greateranglia Are trains running or will they be cancelled? Appreciate an update as my son is at Liv Street attempting to get home to Colchester. Thank you
@tiddlyoggy@sophielouisecc All unis now make reduced offers to BAME students from disadvantaged backgrounds. I think it’s been made compulsory or unis risk losing government funding. They can get offers up to 2 grades lower than standard requirements. It’s on their websites and ucas applications.
@blaiklockBP Both of my sons achieved 3 A* and 1 A at A level including maths, economics, Russian and politics. Both did the necessary super curriculars. Neither bothered applying to Oxbridge as they knew that as white, privately educated boys it would be a waste of a valuable ucas choice.
@JuliaHB1 It’s not just Oxford it’s all unis. They give contextual (lower grade) offers to BAME students or risk losing government research grants and funding. DEI is in every top ranking UK uni and it’s highly unfair on the A* achieving students who miss out on places because of it.
@LaindonFEMINIST I would suggest that your relatives should have delayed becoming parents, and waited until they were skilled enough to earn more than minimum wage.
The state should not be picking up the childcare costs of people who haven’t got their finances in order.
@UKaForceForGood@GoodwinMJ It’s a 5 minute google search, educate yourself instead of asking someone to explain - it’s by no means impenetrable language, honestly you’ll understand it if you look it up, you don’t need a background in finance to understand it.
@UKLabour You must think people are really stupid to believe it’s because the economy is in good shape - they’ve been cut because it looks so bad. Stop lying!
@LaurenWitzkeDE You’re wrong. My son has a peanut allergy and can tell before he’s even seen them if someone is eating peanuts on a flight. His throat and mouth will itch and he has to take medication. People can survive a flight without eating peanuts, they should be banned.
@LeanderReeves @TheBlackSmithUK@dgod1979@RupertLowe10 I’d assume that with a maths degree he was applying to finance roles. There is 100% a DEI problem in finance where they have to employ non white non male graduates over well qualified white males, to meet diversity targets. Positive discrimination does exist.
@eyeslasho So they use lower entry criteria for ethic students to gain places, then wonder why they can’t keep up with everyone else, so fix it by making everyone’s degrees essentially worthless? How is that fair on the students who legitimately earned their place at Oxbridge through talent
@greateranglia @icey_ross Can customers claim back ULEZ charges and petrol for people who had to arrange lifts? We collected our son from Liv St as he tried two hotels that were full and cabs were £300 + which he wasn’t sure you’d refund as no staff to ask, you all hid 🤬