I've already said that I find a lot of AI answers to posted questions (they always come up as the first post ) a definitely wrong. A good example is when I had forgotten the name of the fish and chip shop in our village so Googled for it and AI said "there is no reported fish and chip shop in..." when the next eight posts were about the fish and chip shop I had been buying from for the last 20 years!
Last week one AI insisted there was no such thing as the latest iphone model. It had never existed and I must be mistaken. Hmmm, Apple must be wondering why their sales of the air are below forecasts!
According to the worlds goodliest president the worlds biggliest navy has surrounded the badliest nation of Venezuela. A bit tricky as Venezuela has land borders with Brazil, Colombia and Guyana.
He is making a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT this evening, according to his ‘TRUTH’. Maybe officially inviting Putin over for Christmas, as joint President of the USSRA? Or declaring war on Venezuela to further his bid for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who knows what he might announce. He may not know yet. This Erasmus scheme is baffling. So, EU students can come here, UK students can go there. Seems fair to both sides ... so why do we have to pay?
Because Erasmus is an EU funded and backed exchange system and the UK is not a contributing member. UK students have to pay to study at home. Many EU countries have no or very low university fees for all students, not just home grown.
Starmer wants a closer relationship with EU. I think we came out of Eramus as part of Brexit deal. So we have to pay to go back in, is how I see it. I also feel this is the beginning of the end of brexit and the slow ( slowly slowly )reintroduction to the EU. Democratic vote out of the window. Voting doesn’t seem to count for anything.
Erasmus+ is an EU programme that provides grant funding for international placements and partnership projects for organisations working in education, training, youth and sport. It aims to helps people improve their education, gain work experience, and grow personally by offering chances to study, learn and work in eligible countries. The UK pulled out on Brexit major reason being more foreign students were coming here than UK students.
Polls indicate that a majority of people in the UK now believe Brexit was a bad move - voting onself out of free access to a major export market is never clever unless you have already planned viable alternatives. Even now the EU buys 40+% of UK exports but now with all the extra bureaucracy and rules and fees. Free movement of people has also gone along with educational and cultural exchanges, participation in and funding of important scientific, technological and medical research and development and all the jobs and opportunities they offer. Common sense tells you the UK is stronger with ties to Europe than with ties to its other major export market which is now subject to the tantrums, whims and volatility of its very impaired leader and his acolytes.
So ... we pay Erasmus and they pay out scholarships, etc. OK. I only hope someone has done the maths on the back of an envelope to check we are not actually paying out more than the benefits our young people are receiving.
Maybe ... but it must be tested by a democratic vote. If a majority does indeed wish to return, back we go. If, on the other hand, there only appears to be a majority for this because a few insist it must be the case, the vote will settle that argument. Anyone confident they know what the majority want would have no objection to this course of action.
