I believe SpaceX isn't working with NASA to get Starship human rated by them. I think they are trying to do it 100% private, partially so they don't need to prove it to NASA's standards.
Why not? It didn't take that long to certify Dragon, and most of the delays were on SpaceX (like blowing up the capsule they were originally intending to use for this test).
> Undergraduate tuition fees are over £9k a year (it was zero when I went to university 20 years ago).
That's wrong.
In 2000 the fees that the UK student had to pay was £1000 a year (£1700 in today's currency), and the government paid about £3000 - a total of £4000, or £6800 in today's money.
Students had to pay this upfront to study. In 2006 these upfront fees were dropped.
