mondays mmm…took a late rising teenager to school, came back via the co-op to avert starving the cat and kids, jumped in and out of bath, found local music shop selling the correct guitar strings – the make and size having been added to the note section of my phone so i don't have to use my failing memory – post them through my front door so the early rising teenager can go ahead with the afterschool band practice. jump on train and bus and join queue for coffee.
meeting with student union regarding elq. now this is something that has been bugging me for a bit, and it seems to be making other people i tell frown.
this year if you had wanted to do an equivalent or lower level degree you would have had to pay the full fee, with no help from student grants or loans. so if you have a ba and 10 yrs later, after you find out what you really want to do with your life, you decide to do another ba it will cost approx twentyonethousandpounds. (some courses are excluded).
my major problem with this is that the current student population does not know. prospective students in 6th forms are not being told. the attitude is go to uni it makes financial sense, you'll get a better job (?) and don't worry about the loan. they are the ones it is going to affect. the number of mature students will, no doubt, decrease and i have heard that some staff in uni's that had a large number of mature students historically have had to lay off staff and cut courses.
the su is digging
mmm…mondays
booked projectors for fri (although i may only be allowed to take one if they are in demand, this may scupper what i was planning to show, will have to remember to have a plan b), picked up strecher frames, ate a really tasty apple and pondered.
the afternoon was as hectic as the morning and i am now feeling too snoozy to tap anything sense making.
