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Black and white portrait photograph of Benjamin Disraeli. He is sat looking to the side, wearing Victorian morning clothes, with a combed side parting haircut and goatee beard. He is resting a cane against his leg.
Black and white portrait photograph of William Gladstone. He is looking directly at the camera, wearing a dark Victorian-style suit, a bow tie and large stiff collar. He has wavy, slightly dishevelled hair combed with a side parting, and large sideburns.
Unsurprisingly, the Budget statements are typically very long. To date, the longest Budget speech was that of Gladstone in 1853, coming in at a whopping 4 hours and 45 minutes. The shortest was Benjamin Disraeli's budget speech in 1867 which lasted just 45 minutes. (7/10)
Since the first Government Grant for scientific research in 1850, funding decisions were largely shaped by researchers—not politicians. That early autonomy helped shape how we fund research today. Interestingly, the "Haldane Principle" didn't exist in name for another 113 years
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I'm not sure any amount of prior awareness actually prepares you emotionally for how few opportunities there are immediately post-PhD atm, especially in the humanities
I have also seen working-class people become disenfranchised from education due to high costs and lack of opportunities
I have much more recent experience, having been to secondary school in the 2010s. I can confidently say that I have not experienced working-class people looking down on education. I have experienced working-class people being told by middle-class people that university is not for them
This feels like quite an offensive take. I grew up on a council estate, and I'm the first in my family to go on to FE, never mind HE. To group people who don't go to university as 'anti-learning' is really harmful. My grandad would have loved the opportunity to go to university.
