Actually, on average it will be the south-east-English taxpayer doing the subsidising of the Welsh students, as the budget comes from general UK taxation, not some hypothecated Welsh-only tax; the Welsh budget is about £8-9bn more than Welsh taxation, IIRC.
I suppose you could claw that back and subsidise the future earnings of salary-earning graduates (given that the whole point is that students don't pay anything when they are students), but that doesn't seem fair on the poor, or the sick or whatever else the Welsh assembly is spending that money on.
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Date: 2010-12-01 06:47 am (UTC)I suppose you could claw that back and subsidise the future earnings of salary-earning graduates (given that the whole point is that students don't pay anything when they are students), but that doesn't seem fair on the poor, or the sick or whatever else the Welsh assembly is spending that money on.