Student Debt

Description: What does the cost of getting a university education do to your pocket book?

Newest Review: ... live on in the big city universities if studying away from home and the bank of mum and dad usaully picks up the other half, paying much sonner than they hoped this year. The Student Loan Co admitted this time last year in a memo they would be around 40% behind on calls for 2009 because of poor staffing levels. Why they are short of staff is because they introduced a new bar-coding system ... more

... for this year, the idea being the data in-putters would have half as much work to do so they could get rid of half of them. But the barcode readers malfunctioned and the reduced staff were stuck with last years work load plus 14% more applications. You wou...more

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Student Debt: Get a job in McDonalds or a pub and stop moaning. (1255 words)
by - written on 13/10/09 (Very useful, 103 readings)
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It's always baffled me why middle-class students whinge about having to pay their way through college. Some even bemoan the fact WORK is even on the 'to do' list to get through a three year course in recession. If you want to study away from home guys and girls and enjoy that exciting "student life" at the taxpayer's expense then you will now have to pay for the privilege of that liberation, simple as. The only reason you get to enjoy that advantage and fun time in your life is because working-class kids generally can't afford it. It's not really about intelligence anymore. The average course is less than twenty hours a week and ten hours of that is dodgeable ... Read the complete review

Crippling Ourselves Financially to get an Education (696 words)
by - written on 09/11/08 (Very useful, 191 readings)
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I was fortunate enough to be part of the last cohort of students that qualified for an educational grant. However, I still had to get a part-time job and apply for a government loan from the Student Loans Company. Despite all of this, I ended up transferring universities so that I could live at home as I was sick to death of eating a combination of cereal, bread or noodles: Financially I couldn't afford to stretch my budget to anything else. At present, the maximum tuition fee that a Higher Education institution can charge a student for the academic year 2008 and 2009 is £3,145 for a year's programme. In the event that a student does not live at home ... Read the complete review

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