The rich are getting richer during this economic crisis and in the UK, they've already made it much easier for the rich-but-dumb crowd to buy their way into universities. Now, the Tories have made money an even stronger component in the decision making process. Besides being more easy money for the bankers, anyone with a loan for university also gets easy access. (Unlike the US, university in the UK used to be reasonably priced and easy to afford without a bank loan. The Tory austerity plan blew up that old pricing model.)
So come to England where if you had wads of cash or if you want to help your local banker, you too can get ahead. Oh what a fair system brought to you by the blue bloods. How can anyone argue that this is not more class warfare from the haves?
Universities UK, which represents universities, has been consulted. Its president, Sir Steve Smith, who is vice-chancellor of Exeter University, said the proposal to allow banks to exploit the student market carried huge risks and could create a two-tier education system.
He said the Department for Business Innovation and Skills had proposed that students taking private loans would be counted outside the allotment of places each university is given by the government, making them attractive to colleges aiming to increase their cash flow.
Smith said the consequent risk of a two-tier higher education system had "nasty" implications. "They [the government] have talked to us about that, but the trouble is that it has the obvious objection that it looks awfully like those people buying their way in."
Striking it big in an epic role as a character with many fans is the dream of many struggling actors, but as Kim Catrall can tell you, typecasting can be a frustrating business.
So much so that the actress has fled to England, where she says it’s far easier to work and not be seen eternally as the tough-talking, man-eating Samantha Jones off Sex and the City. 54-year-old Catrall says that she has a few irons in the fire in the UK, free of her Samantha connections:
“In England they aren’t interested in casting me as Samantha. Across the pond they see me as an actress who plays many roles, so I am interested in continuing to work in television and I have a project with the BBC which I am producing,” she told PopEater.
Catrall says that it’s not the first time in her long career she’s struggled with shaking off a theme or genre:
“My early career was supporting my theatre habit and there was no way I could pay a loan, never mind my rent on what I was making in theatre,” she explained.
“Movies became a way for me to do that and I didn’t take it quite seriously.
“For basically four or five days’ work in Porky’s I made enough money to live over an eight month period. I needed the money, I was broke and I made that choice for survival. I didn’t want to go back and be a waitress again.”
Among Catrall’s new SATC-free roles was playing an aging porn star in Meet Monica Velour, a role for which she put on 20 lbs. She gushes:
“They asked me to gain 30 but I didn’t want to make myself sick,” the 54-year-old star said. “We made a deal saying I would gain 15 lbs. before the film and 5 lbs. during. But I did enjoy grabbing my stomach and feeling what that extra weight felt like.”
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So come to England where if you had wads of cash or if you want to help your local banker, you too can get ahead. Oh what a fair system brought to you by the blue bloods. How can anyone argue that this is not more class warfare from the haves?
Universities UK, which represents universities, has been consulted. Its president, Sir Steve Smith, who is vice-chancellor of Exeter University, said the proposal to allow banks to exploit the student market carried huge risks and could create a two-tier education system.
He said the Department for Business Innovation and Skills had proposed that students taking private loans would be counted outside the allotment of places each university is given by the government, making them attractive to colleges aiming to increase their cash flow.
Smith said the consequent risk of a two-tier higher education system had "nasty" implications. "They [the government] have talked to us about that, but the trouble is that it has the obvious objection that it looks awfully like those people buying their way in."
Striking it big in an epic role as a character with many fans is the dream of many struggling actors, but as Kim Catrall can tell you, typecasting can be a frustrating business.
So much so that the actress has fled to England, where she says it’s far easier to work and not be seen eternally as the tough-talking, man-eating Samantha Jones off Sex and the City. 54-year-old Catrall says that she has a few irons in the fire in the UK, free of her Samantha connections:
“In England they aren’t interested in casting me as Samantha. Across the pond they see me as an actress who plays many roles, so I am interested in continuing to work in television and I have a project with the BBC which I am producing,” she told PopEater.
Catrall says that it’s not the first time in her long career she’s struggled with shaking off a theme or genre:
“My early career was supporting my theatre habit and there was no way I could pay a loan, never mind my rent on what I was making in theatre,” she explained.
“Movies became a way for me to do that and I didn’t take it quite seriously.
“For basically four or five days’ work in Porky’s I made enough money to live over an eight month period. I needed the money, I was broke and I made that choice for survival. I didn’t want to go back and be a waitress again.”
Among Catrall’s new SATC-free roles was playing an aging porn star in Meet Monica Velour, a role for which she put on 20 lbs. She gushes:
“They asked me to gain 30 but I didn’t want to make myself sick,” the 54-year-old star said. “We made a deal saying I would gain 15 lbs. before the film and 5 lbs. during. But I did enjoy grabbing my stomach and feeling what that extra weight felt like.”
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