Coffee at the university - Yes Minister - BBC comedy
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2007
- The university staff are lobbying hard to increase their funding in a funny clip from Yes Minister, a classic BBC British comedy series.
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4000 a year university fee is the only thing about this clip that is outdated.
@Rad Derry Therein lies a lesson.
Converting from 1978 (making a ballpark guess for when the episode might have aired) to 2020, I get 20,026 pounds. Of course university fees have tended to outpace general inflation, so that would not even be too bad today.
@@RolfHartmann Yes Minister originally ran from 1980-1984. So the adjusted figure would be around £14 thousand.
@@misterjei But didn't it take place in the seventies?
@@duxnihilo I don't think they specified time timezone so will just have to time the gag based on the broadcast date and rough time it was written
As a Sussex grad, I can confirm we had classrooms.
And were careful not to drop the soap in the showers?
No idea, couldn't afford soap.
I was at Oxford and never saw a classroom. I don't think there were any.
USS Spirit LSE was absolutely awful! Ghastly in my days: the classrooms & stairways were creepy.🥺
You poor bastards.
'I don't think that's awfully funny.' he said it with such conviction 🤣
This great clip pokes at a lot of deep issues. Foreign vs domestic enrollment in universities, universities as a business vs a public service vs a socio-meritocratic filter, the place of the sciences vs the humanities, etc.
I see I'm not the only one here working in higher ed.
45 downvotes from Wormwood Scrubs inmates who were outraged at being compared to Sussex grads 😎
😮why
As a former international student to the British Commonwealth (Canada) I can confirm that this video holds up to today's standard. They make you pay about 4 times the amount that normal Canadians have to pay for university. Not to mention you aren't eligible for student loans, etc. That's why they are addicted to students from mainland China, who doesn't mind paying those excess fees.
You are eligible for British Council overseas student scholarships, as well as scholarships from your university or college. As for student loans, you have to apply to your own Canadian government for that.
It's the same thing in Canada at our universities with international students
"Mm, why, did I pass the port the wrong way?" Oh, Humphrey, you snarky darling. XD
Arguably the best Political series of All Time - still runs as a Classic. Even Thatcher (love, like or hate her) once famously remarked with a grin that its "closer to reality than some may think" ..... she never missed an episode :)
"some may think" I thought the humour of the show revolved around it's glaring similarities to actual government policies and actions
Sean Gannon Yep, that’s what Thatcher was implying. 😊👍🏼
So did David Cameron a few years back 😕
'... or the University of Sussex...'
Sad to see how accurate this series (and this episode) was in predicting the future ...
It’s a simple strategy. Use what you’ve got to get what you want 😂😅
The recent pandemic has exposed how crappy the economics of universities all across the UK are. It's not just Oxbridge relying on international students, it's a lot more universities than that!
Oxford's current overseas rate is just under £25,000 a year, so they argument definitely holds up, considering the average cost of an Oxford education is £16,800 per student.
That's what I was thinking - overseas students DO pay the full economic cost of their tuition plus a substantial markup
They don't have to take it. They can go elsewhere. One therefore must assumed it's a desirable university therefore they can mark it up. Plus it often comes with unspoken benefits such as jumping immigration queues for permanent residency and that in itself is worth a fee.
@@xr6lad jumping? How? That may have been true in the past but most of these retards who study in foreign universities simply have to go back home.
AD and going back home means they pay less than the locals who find the education by there taxes which justifies the raised prices for foreigners
Perchance some are simplyfing issues a tad for youtube comments pertaining to tax, immigration, and other subjects accurately labelled nationalistic/wealth intersectional. Some questions:
1. Do some have opinions about just who gets to join their society?
2. Do some nations state preference for admission by one's "practical usability" to the local society, and is there a factor for higly desirable, alternatively skilled, demonstrated education and diploma?
3. Does the discussion about these wildly discussed topics generally revolve around a philosophical war for who, even who as in specific individuals in the most narcissistic speakers, should be successful in the existing societal hierarchy? And even more, who should be wealthy? Who's life should be a life of luxury, and should anyone be deprieved?
4. How does one prioritise people and resources available? Twisted, darkly, continued; how does one triage?
Answers to these questions are enough to map anyone to our current political parties. Then like now and hopefully not forever... these things are what politic divides in to many nations revolve around. While it can be worse, i still hope you'd join me in wishing for better. Have hope a society could build better, and that you and me would take risk and sacrifices, for better.
Why give up building a house just because some dick head screams and throw rocks at you? No matter your response and what you do, don't stop building you house. You might start a city.
Every Yes Minister clip is an education to me
"...or the University of Sussex."! Cruel!
Still applicable today . absolute class .
It was alleged that many of the ideas for the plots apparently came from Harold Wilson's Prime Minister's real life private secretary Marcia Falkender (the Bernard character), so many of the plots have a string of truth to them. Hence the plots in Oxford (where Wilson attended).
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.
About a grand less for my freshman year. Of course my sports factory, ur, college now charges 8 times the figure.
He has the best timing in the business...
I was born in 1998 and this show is still so ironically relevant
I’m for full fees to be charged to domestic students. Tax money not for educating everyone
Absolutely true even here in Canada.
Frank Middlemass. Brilliant in this and Ripping Yarns Murder at Moorstones Manor.
was also an excellent headmaster in 'To serve them all my days', an excellent series.
How true and realistic!
EXCELENT
£4000 a year?! I'd KILL for that!
£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
You pay that much if you're british, overseas is way more expensive...
When this was filmed, University tuition was free for UK students
Pierzing.glint1sh7 Tony Blair introduced tuition fee in September 1998. [By the way, this same evil person introduced PFI (privatisation) into the NHS. This guy was more tory than all the Tories put together.]
@@gentblue Yes, free for us Scots, and as a result our top universities have tiny proportions of Scottish students. Precisely for the reason outlined in this clip. My University (top in Scotland) is only roughly 25% Scottish. But it's free, for the few who are lucky enough to get it...
@@wemuk5170 The Tories don't try to privatise things, certainly less than Labour do
@Seffer I did my MSc in geometry at Oxford.
£4000 a year? That'd be a downright bargain in Britain today.
written in the 1970s
That was for foreign students, not domestic.
I think the open university is still cheaper than that, and maybe Birkbeck
Something is telling me that the University of Sussex alums we're enjoying this video until the very end then something changed
@TimBrewin So that Advert isnt there? Am i imagining that?
lolz actually I go to Uni of sussex...its very true lolz
‘It would be like Wormwood Scrubs’ 😂😂
@duracell777 it's BBC World channel - the BBC's commercial arm.
Education is a Business after all😁😁😁😁
These wise men didn't foresee the Chinese going to UK to receive education.
I think Sir Humphrey's master's daughter went to University of Sussex.
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.
Anything but home students...it’d be like wormwood scrubs or the University of Sussex
RIP, Bernard. :-(
Arizona State University has lots of classes with hundreds of students per professor.
Hard to imagine Sussex having its own University.
After megan!
It's Rocky, Lionel Hardcastle's father.
Rock on!!! 😀🤠
@huntmatuk maybe you should've attended Oxford? :D
British students at a British university... perish the thought 😒
If 400 UK students at 500l / head bring in the same revenue as 50 foreign students, that would mean that they _already_ charge overseas students 4000l in tuition.
I think they need to re-run this show!
They already do on Britbox. It's a subscription service like netflix, but it's got the terrestrial tv stuff from BBC, ITV, etc.
This is exactly what has happened to Australian universities.
Oz is silly subsidising domestic students. It’s wrong to waste tax payer money that way.
4000 a year? Bargain!
4k in 1980 is around 16.5k in 2018 so still much more than standard tuition fees
@@Akeel_ that was for overseas students, not domestic. Domestic was free.
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!
Did you go to university in 1981?
@@_JohnDoe if he did, he wouldn’t have paid if he was British.
Wow 1:10 ratio in university..
I wonder how the real Oxford felt about this. lol
Considering how absolutely nothing changed they probably had a laugh. Being made fun of is irrelevant if you're still in charge and rich at the end of the day. That's the thing about the british system it allows the plebes to have a laugh at the upper class but at the end of the day the upper class is still in charge no questions asked. Quite ingenious actually.
Why do I pay 20,000 per year for LSE? Just ridiculous..
Mila BuLL The LSE? Oh, I am sorry.
Maybe because you are a foriegner? That means you won't probably be working in the UK amd won't pay taxes for the next generation of students..
@@manhoosnick Because the government doesn't allow foreign university graduates to get a job easily so they don't even have a chance to pay taxes?
£4,000 a year they simply won’t come.
God this aged quickly
This was 1981 - in 2020 that values around £20,000
Ever heard of inflation?
And here we go again with so many European students who won't be able to pay the international fees starting 2021...
@HappyDaze01 remove the background laughs and we have a documentary
Why do you think the canned laugher was added? Can't have the masses realising that this is how their government is actually run.
MisterJei It was actually filmed with a live audience.
Now I understand why our American universities are overrun with Indians, Pakistanis, Africans, and Chinese. And we taxpayers are picking up the bill😞
I don't think you do understand - are you talking about US private universities or community colleges? The system is very different in the UK, the point here is that international students are desirable because of the much higher fees whereas they're the same for domestic or international students in Ivy league schools in the US
British tax payers didn’t pick up the bill for overseas students. Just British students. That was the point.
@@jgmediting7770I believe we must not pay for local students as well. They should be charged full fee like Oxford does.
@@LHRTW you can believe that if you want, but it would be terrible from a societal pov. It would also rig the game even more in favour for the minority class.
@@jgmediting7770 I don’t care why does my tax money go to educate someone else ??? I’m for full fees.
@Tomwithnonumbers not counting inflation - I stabbed in the middle of the show's production period and £4000 comes up to £9200 according to one website ^^
it's a lot more I'd guess
lol
Our niece, 16 years old bless her, dyes her hair silver blonde, with black painted finger nails, and eyes that a hollywood actress would die for, recently applied for an automotive engineering apprenticeship with an American owned, truck manufacturing business in north western England/UK. Competition was fierce, she hadn't a cat in hell's chance of even being short listed - but she was. Not only that - she got the job, and starts in September on £14,000 GBP a year. Her education - she went to a girl's only high school. She turned down college and University - thinking she was not good enough! If she completes her training by 21, she will have been earning a wage for five years. By that time, her school companions who chose university will have finished their studies - thinking where can I get a job - and more frightening - how do I pay back the thousands of pounds owed on my student loan? No wonder this video clip has a certain, resonance. BTW. When she phoned to tell us that she had got the job - we couldn't believe it! Without really thinking about it - I promised to buy her a boiler-suit for Christmas. The phone went dead - my popularity plummeted. I handed the telephone to my wife - she bleated on about me not having meant it. I have been forgiven - but it's going to cost me more than the price of a boiler-suit, no doubt.
"dyes her hair silver blonde, with black painted finger nails, and eyes that a hollywood actress would die for" - pray enlighten us as to why you felt it necessary to mention these details? Of what relevance were they, or the suit, to the point you were ostensibly making?
Mendicant Bias What he meant to say was that compared to the many uni students boys and girls who are quite qualified but can't find a job and are in debt, his niece who's got the looks but only passed high school, pays little for vocational training, gets paid while being trained and at the end of training gets a job by 21. He meant to highlight the double standards and how unfair it is for studious students compared to his niece.
@@shamilarifeen380 She will be a damn sight more useful to society than many graduates with useless degrees
@@stanleyt.7930 That's subjective. Maybe yes, for certain unskilled or low-skill jobs but a lot of specialized jobs need a degree for theoretical and practical training and understanding the job itself. Also, there are lots of graduates with useful degrees but in debt and jobless. Useless degrees really weren't the point of this discussion
sounds like the typical SPS student at Cambridge
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.
Interesting how RUclips died over 10 years ago. No one uploads anymore.
BBC doesn't bother with uploading old videos. And Monty Python and Netflix is very protective of it's videos.
I am all for what you say about engineering plus science - but my father was a chemical engineer and was a leading light in his field -he even has a forward preface in a specialist text book worth £800-£1000 on Amazon but he took Greek and Latin at university level in addition to Mathematical/Chemistry PHD and this served him well because it helped him with learning Greek and the ancient Greek mathematical Symbols and Latin helped him enormously with Chemistry (Latin names Chemical elements)
I doubt knowing ancient Greek makes little difference in undergoing integration by parts or chemical reactions of aromatic compounds
I disagree that Latin is a dead language. It may sound snobbish but mastery of Latin makes you a cut above.
"A cut above whom"?
A cut above your former self
we thought it was bad then, Heavens preserve us!
It wasn’t bad then. It was free for British students.
@@jgmediting7770many believe that it should be full fee for domestic students as well
@@LHRTW yeah, they’ve either got a vested interest as part of the minority class or aren’t very bright.
WIsh could be a journalist.
Imagine paying £4000 a year for education! Struggles no modern student can relate to...
That’s was only overseas students. British students got it for free. But that’s what you get when you keep voting for right wing economic ideals to be implemented from 1980 onwards. .
In Germany all students pay the same fee. If a home student pays zero fee then the international student pays zero fee as well. Simple. And Germany produces some of the finest engineers as the courses last 5-7 years.
Not only the Germany, the rest countries in EU charge international students quite low. Similarly, Universities in mainland China are quite cheap to all students (around 1700 pounds a year) plus interest-free student loans and scholarships simply apply to most students. For the international students, these are almost free and many visible or transparent welfare... Cutting higher education budget is not political correct in China, same in the EU. However, the affluent still desire education from the commonwealth and US.
@@gwantouwong922 UK education and it's prestige lol
@@pierzing.glint1sh76 They no longer stand with the people. Pathetic bourgeoisie.
Lol The University of Sussex is actually a good university.
Not sure about that lol
I don't think that's awfully funny...
disagree about the "dead language" sentiment
I don't think there is that much of a difference, What with exchangerates and this and that.
@SYMBV If you go to Oxford to get an IT degree, then you deserve what happens to you.
there is no IT degree at Oxford
Foreigners over British.
Even then.
Yes- What with a PC open to the whole world of education for only a pittance, it makes you realise what a racket these fees all are...not even teaching you to boot !
Having went to the university of Sussex, I resent that last comment...
"Having went..." Yes, we can see that, can't we? ("Having gone" for God's sake!)
What kind of university would accept someone who says “having went”? Were you also a foreign student?
"May even be." ......What language is that?
How the hell is this still relevant in 2019??
It was relevant 200 years ago and it was relevant 40 years ago. It is relevant now and it will continue to be relevant for foreseeable future.
I know someone whose daughter did a postgraduate course at a British university. She was the ONLY British student on the course.
Because people keep voting right wing economic ideals into power.
@@lukemarshall1701good thing everyone should pay full fee. I don’t want tax money to be wasted on other persons education
King's College rules? Do you actually go there?
Yup this is what made Britain great. Handing out taxpayer money on cheap education for other countries
I’d hazard a guess you didn’t go to university.
@@jgmediting7770 agree illiterates or low class peeps commenting here
Its cute that everyone think its not acceptable for university to prioritise foreign students over domestic students, but fail to realise the root of the problem. It is unacceptable for universities to prioritise profits and money above education, which is to say, the root problem is capitalism.
wich is why Cuba is so enviable
@@martinguerra5152
Indeed, tiny country being totally blockaded by America for more than half a century to prevent inflow of knowledge. Yet Cuba managed to build a not for profit education system. Which later raised nurses and scientists to develop its own medical industry that it could produce vaccines as fast as China, Russia or America, and has made medicare readily available that its life expectancy of the people in Cuba surpassed America while being a fraction of its wealth.
@@the1onlynoob jajajaj
thats why americans swin and sail on rafts to cuba instead of the other way around
you're adorable
@@martinguerra5152
of course. Americans wouldn't blockade Cuba it wasn't effective in screwing over a country for decades.
Why the fuck are the BBC advertising bullshit, i pay the licence fee specifically so they do not advertise bullshit.
This is BBC worldwide. It is a different company.
This is one of the few decent shows to come out of the BBC too. It’s actually less political than contemporary comedy shows from the
Belligerent Brain-washing Cesspit.
So basically, this happens every time the Conservatives get in.
+Derek Smallshorts It should be the other way around.
The cost goes up in every new government. Some governments just borrow more to cover the rise. The only proper solutions are too far right or too far left to ever be implemented, sadly.
Every time the right wing get in. Which has been every time since 1979.
Anyone who believes Bernie's plan to finance higher education with a tax on stock transactions should pay close attention to this clip;)
+SpectatorAlius ?
+Frederick Subere-Albawy The universities don't care about home students, and making it cheaper for them will still make foreign students a better deal.
SpectatorAlius: The clip is from a sitcom, not a documentary.
rhyfela herwfilwrol Freakishly close to a documentary according to many politicians and civil servants
Aritra Gupta: There is always an element of "truth" in comedy, otherwise it wouldn't be funny. But it is farcical to suggest that a sitcom is in anyway factual, can you give me one example of a British politician or civil servant saying that Yes Minister is "Freakishly close to a documentary"?
In other words they'd rather teach a dead language of Latin, than deal with engineering and science.
Latin sounds important. Engineering and proper science involves having to do something and you know as well as I do how much the Civil Service and their friends like doing things.
Once you learn Latin, engineering and science ar easy
If you don't know the correlation between Latin and scientific names then perhaps it's for the better you went to the University of Sussex.
@@darthkek1953 One thing to know Latin for Medical, and Scientific studies. It's quite the other to specialize in it. You might have missed the Yes Prime Minister episode when they talk about Education. It sums it up nicely.