Coffee at the university - Yes Minister - BBC comedy

[Tomwithnonumbers]

£4000? Can you imagine anyone paying a £4000 tuition fee? Why that would be ludicrous! Next we'd be paying £9000, if you'd believe that

[supermonkeywtf09]

lol

[cdl80000]

£4000 a year?! I'd KILL for that!

[spacelizardlaw]

There is only one thing worse than being talked about...

And that's not having a QC to sue the bastards...

[howarda376]

@ huntmatuk: "having went"? Having BEEN, my dear! You obviously DID go to the University of Susssex ;-)

[stupidjunk978]

£4000 a year? They simply won't come!

[kafata1]

He has the best timing in the business...

[duracell777]

Why the fuck are the BBC advertising bullshit, i pay the licence fee specifically so they do not advertise bullshit.

[somerandomer]

@duracell777 it's BBC World channel - the BBC's commercial arm.

[TimBrewin]

@duracell777 This isn't advertising you retard. Anyway, you pay your license fee to avoid going to prison.

[duracell777]

@TimBrewin So that Advert isnt there? Am i imagining that?

[TimBrewin]

@TimBrewin Oops, I thought you meant the clip was an advertisement.

[jez0000]

£4000 a year? That'd be a downright bargain in Britain today.

[huntmatuk]

Having went to the university of Sussex, I resent that last comment...

[Seffer]

@huntmatuk maybe you should've attended Oxford? :D

[huntmatuk]

@Seffer I did my MSc in geometry at Oxford.

[SignalsOverTheAir]

It's Rocky, Lionel Hardcastle's father.

[TheZanipolo]

Home students are now more lucrative of course....

[431pvuf]

@TheZanipolo no

[simplecoffee]

"Mm, why, did I pass the port the wrong way?" Oh, Humphrey, you snarky darling. XD

[agemangirl1919]

I am a humble uneducated Japanese so I am not qualified to give any comments here but please allow me to say a few things. Money is a very important factor for any academic institutions but it is not the only factor. Culture and history that nurtures it are probably more important. CERN and the like cost billions of pounds to build and maintain but they are useless without good theories. I think as long as Oxbridge maintain their lead in thinking power, they will be fine.

[HMservant]

'... or the University of Sussex...'

[leopictor]

"May even be." ......What language is that?

[leopictor]

we thought it was bad then, Heavens preserve us!

[alaswoeisme]

How true and realistic!

[SYMBV]

Very true of the financial situation in Oxford, as their alumni is not as effective as Standford or Princeton when it comes to fund raising. I have got the pleasure to meet some of the brightest people and they are from Oxford. Given the insufficiency of investment in IT education in Oxford, I would say that the best education in UK, especially in the area of technology, falls behind US. Shameful but true.

[Apolloin]

@SYMBV If you go to Oxford to get an IT degree, then you deserve what happens to you.

[mikeybrumbrum]

To cut a long story short, the table of life is tilted in the direction of the Monarchy, and those surrounding them (like the two lapdogs in this vid - sir humphrey and the other).

They spend all day finding ways ot hide form us, the fact that we are not in any way free, and to keep us too busy to complain about it.

WE hold all the power, but they are working hard to change that, and are now slowly heading us toward a police state.

This is because people are waking up to them, so they NEED to

[CM1032]

It's £12,000 a year for an overseas student at the University of Manchester, so they are paying 4 times the home fees.

As it turns out though, education is one of the biggest drivers of the UK economy, the fears of the professors in this video have not been realised. The UK has more overseas students than most developed nations. May even be the most popular.

Though I think the fears will be realised if fees are raised again.

[mikeybrumbrum]

Unfortunately, it is very true, that they get PAID money to have FOREIGN students.

Thye just want to recruit them as spies, of course, but thats another story.

But our kids are last on the list again.

[hesrobinson]

Not true - universities get approx £3000 per UK arts/humanities/social science student and approx £10,000 for sciences from the government (plus further £3000ish in top-up fees), but nothing for overseas except fees direct from students (not sure about EU, suspect it's same as UK). However there are quotas for home students (so treasury has a limited bill to pay) while universities can have as many overseas students as they like.

[DaniMajor]

I think that, consindering that Oxford is one of the best universities in the world, and that they must keep their reputation and traditions, the money they are asking it´s not so exagerate. And it´s obivious that they have better conditions for the english students since it´s a english university. Though it bothers me a little, because one day I d ´like to go there.

[HappyDaze01]

I wonder how much of these sketches are actually satirical.

[kbaird1783]

Apparently quite a bit of the series has a basis in reality; a good friend of mine is writing PhD dissertation in British political history on the subject.

[Booshman]

He gets to watch sitcoms in the name of a PhD? Sign me up! :P

[jradetzky]

@HappyDaze01 remove the background laughs and we have a documentary

[thatdrattedcat]

Oh good heavens... 4,000 pounds a year? They simply won't come to Oxford? Bah and here I pay $40,000 a year. PLEASE--sign me up!

[Mullahgrrl]

I don't think there is that much of a difference, What with exchangerates and this and that.

[thatdrattedcat]

4,000 pounds is about $7,000... even accounting for inflation since the 80s it's a long way off from $40,000. And the value you get for your money! Incredible.

[wookiezzz]

This is so true!It's so expansive for oversea students!

[kgab2268]

Flogging sociology courses to the natives - lol

[TheMirrorBallSuit]

lol if you go to the university of sussex

(king's college london rules!)

[saskiaburgermeister]

King's College rules? Do you actually go there?

[TheMirrorBallSuit]

Hehe no but I did a masters there until a year ago, I'm a journalist now.

[frankwolftown]

WIsh  could be a journalist.

[akberciit]

lolz actually I go to Uni of sussex...its very true lolz