I had hoped this year to avoid writing about exams, exam boards, universities, courses, student joy, student pain, grade inflation, etc etc. \u00a0However, as August becomes more autumnal, it's not to be.<\/p>\n
Call me naive, but I really did think that the university courses available through the UCAS clearing system were available to all students applying with suitable qualifications no matter where they live in the UK \u2013 albeit that there are differences in costs.<\/p>\n
Not so if you're from Scotland and hope to get into a Scottish university via clearing. \u00a0This link<\/a> shows that there are 47 courses available at the University of Edinburgh if you are from England. \u00a0If you are from Scotland, however, this link<\/a> shows that there are only 3.<\/p>\n You don't need me to tell you that this overt discrimination against Scottish students whose parents pay Scottish taxes by a Scottish university with the connivance of the Scottish government is so that they can get the fees.<\/p>\n If I were living in Scotland and were caught up in this, I'd be incandescent with rage. \u00a0As it is, I'm just further depressed by the hypocrisy of institutions who spend \u00a3zillions telling everyone how ethical they are.<\/p>\n Time, in every sense, for a break. \u00a0Back in September ...<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had hoped this year to avoid writing about exams, exam boards, universities, courses, student joy, student pain, grade inflation, etc etc. \u00a0However, as August becomes more autumnal, it's not to be. Call me naive, but I really did think...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}