Plymouth University Wastes Money On Chairs !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-29262526

This University must be awash with money if it can afford to spend so much money on 7 very ordinary-looking chairs. The mind boggles !

[Baldric]

///Professor David Coslett, deputy vice chancellor, said the university hoped to pay for the chairs through "private donations and charitable foundations"///

[VHG]

Only £21,000 for each chair which does not seem too bad :-)

[mikey4444]

I have just noticed that these chairs only have three legs. At £21,428 per chair, I think that the University should be entitled to 4 legs at least !

And if they are going to be used for ceremonial purposes, shouldn't they be taller and a little more grand ? These look as if they should be around a dining table.

[mikey4444]

Baldric...wouldn't the money have been better spent on some essential ?

[ChillDoubt]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1366283.html

Granted, should have been in News as it's topical, not CB.

[mikey4444]

VHG...over £21,000 for a chair isn't "too bad" ...where do you buy your chairs...Harrods ?

[mikey4444]

Sorry Chili...didn't realise that it had already been posted ! More grist for the Mill perhaps.

[ludwig]

At least the students that will be paying off their tuition fee loans for the next 30 years will know that the money was spent on something useful.

[youngmafbog]

Unfortunatley it does not surprise me.

[horseshoes]

Perhaps they'll prove to be a good investment!

[atalanta]

They look extraordinarily ugly to me. I wouldn't give you tuppence for them. They also look slightly obscene, too, somehow.

[Prudie]

My daughter is currently paying her loan off from Plymouth! Whatever, £21K for a chair, what a con, a fool and his money is easily parted.

[NiceCupOfTea]

This is like one of those joke stories in the Private Eye.

[wolf63]

If they are so eager to invest why don't they buy property and turn it into flats for the students. Charge the going rate for rent and maintain the property - a much more sensible investment.

Maybe I should go to university