NUS has money to burn...

Great piece over at

Students for Freedom

that TB reckons is worth reproducing in full:

The NUS advertises for a new regional organiser for the South West 

in the best place to find well-paid non-jobs: GuardianJobs.

£29k AND a car?! Compare that to the average university lecturer, who earns £31,840 a year, and obviously no car (duh!).  For the £29k of students’ and universities’ money that the NUS is throwing at its representatives, universities could pay for 700 hours of teaching at that pay grade 

at the suggested £41.23 an hour

.  Each of my eight courses has 100 or so students, and has forty hours of ‘teacher-student interface’ time a year.  That is to say, for the cost of the NUS hiring a regional coordinator to peddle its trash to the South West of England, 219 more students could have been taught for a year. Thanks for standing up for students’ interests once again, NUS!

Something tells TB that Oli Cooper won't be standing for an NUS position anytime soon.