The Home Office has suggested that asylum seekers should pay a £10k fee to reimburse the UK state for part of their costs. Or… asylum seekers could just be allowed to work and not be kept in forced inactivity for a year?
Sanjush Dalmia outlines what Ed Miliband can do to make British aid more effective without spending more money.
The US has changed regulation around duration of status for international students. In practice, this means that international students will have to get a new visa after four years in the country. Given that PhD programs are six years, this is incredibly disruptive to international graduate students and will likely reduce the number that choose to study in the US. Since immigrants make up a large percentage of the innovation workforce, this will ultimately be bad for the US.
The US is moving towards requiring colleges to show that their graduates make more than they would if they had not gone to college in order for students to be eligible for financial aid. This seems largely sensible; I’ve never bought the argument that one goes to college simply to expand one’s mind. That’s lovely, I’m sure, but I’m not paying 200 grand for it.1
In the US, 65% of homes are owner-occupied. But due to the rise of young adults living with their parents, this does not mean 65% of people own their homes; actually, only 53% of people live in a home they own.
Tibor Rutar begs us to stop saying “correlation is not causation”. I second this; I’d get this comment all the time on QI facts. Any time I’d report on a causal paper and use causal language, someone would comment that correlation is not causation. Yes, I know, that’s why I went through the identification strategy to see if I thought it was good…
This is old, but it is good to remember that you are a crazy person and should choose your career based on your particular kind of crazy.
Li Keqiang’s wife translated a book on Yes, Minister into Chinese…
I did also attend the university with the highest NPV for its undergraduate degree, apparently.