I wonder why the Daily Telegraph thinks it is front page news that British universities have lower entry thresholds for students from outside the EU who come clutching large wads of cash? I used to work in a department with a tiny "quota" for EU postgraduates and a much larger "target" for non EU students. Failure to meet the "target" was punished by an "adjustment" to the overall number of students we were allowed to admit. Now what would you predict given those incentives? First class degree from Bristol? Sorry we're full up. Mediocre degree from No. 3 Inner Mongolia Polytechnical Institute of Yurt and Yak Studies, a bogus language certificate and £24,000? That will do nicely.
What is wrong with movies these days?
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Here is one bit from a longer and very interesting essay by Vicky
Osterweil: This kind of audience-condescending premise-forward literalism
is not just i...
10 hours ago