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Originally posted by wellard:
A limit of 10% of a class opened up to fee paying students would not overtly influence the class dynamics and if they fail the class? tough!
Of course I or anyone in my family have never been to University (you guessed  ) but I cannot see how a low level of fee-paying students would affect standards
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Yes, but as I said, it would not just be 'tough!' if the universities NEED the money that their full fee paying students generate. Someone who didn't get good enough results to do the course they want and simply isn't capable of doing the work
should fail, but if the universities aren't getting the funding they need and rely on full fee paying students it would be silly for them to throw the student out. So they either have to have different standards for full fee paying students, which would rightly not be tolerated by other students (and hopefully society - I don't really want to have my pet operated on by a veterinary graduate who 'passed' because their parents were wealthy, for instance), or relax standards for everyone to accomodate people who are only there because they're rich. If it is not in the university's best interests to fail even one of these students, so they do not, then that will automatically affect standards.
And I do agree, Davros, as we've discussed before, that university shouldn't be free, however it should be subsidised. LOL, as you know, I was equally irritated when they raised HECS again when I entered and I was paying double what my brother paid