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Contributed by Di

Where are the parents?

Well in my day if you went to college or UNI you got a grant and your parents made up the rest.

I know I was lucky, my Dad was well off and sent me to private boarding school and then saw me through college. My grant from the government was just about enough to cover books, equipement and maybe the odd lager shandy….. my Dad paid for lodgings, food, train fairs home etc. I also worked in the holidays to have enough to live on.

How on earth do students get into so much debt??? Are they spending it all on drugs??? Do their parents not help anymore??? I have a feeling that they arte living above their means, they think they are entitled like so many other spongers in our society now days. For Goodness sake, if you can’t afford to go to college/UNI get a job in Mc Donald’s!!!!

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I resent that....
Written by Mini Moo on 2006-01-16 15:01:48

I'm a student and this is my 3rd year here in Huddersfield. It's not the best place in the country but I have learnt more here about myself and other people than most people learn in their whole little lifetimes.

Money. Yeah, it's an issue. What if parent's can't afford to send their children to uni? Does that mean they do not deserve to get a good education and not have a right to study something to better themselves in the field of their choice?

I don't get the full loan because of my paren'ts earnings. This does NOT mean my parents are rich. My loan covers my accomodation. I have a job which covers food and some equipment. I might even have a night out a month if I'm lucky.

HOW THE HELL are we sponging off society?! We get a LOAN - we have to pay it back. THAT is how we are in so much debt. I have had a statement for how much I owe already... In my first year, the interest alone had gone up to £11 a month - it is now more like £15 or more. By the time I leave uni, after 4 years, I will owe well over twice as much as I borrowed, due to interest. Fine start to life in the work place isn't it? Working to pay off debts. What about working to get money to live on? To survive on? Or even to have the odd luxury?

This is the 21st century love, try being a student now, where - unless you have a job with plenty of hours OR in fact extremely rich parents, then you're completely fucked, for want of a better word.

And yes, I AM bitter. All I wanted to do was follow my interests, and gain skills to do better in my field of work. And this is what we get for it.

I dread to think of the poorer people of this country - where is their fair chance to do something like that?

Oh and....
Written by Mini Moo on 2006-01-16 15:04:56

We don't all have parents who can afford boarding school and pay for us to go to uni.

I come from a poor area of Manchester, working class, but my folks are doing alright for themselves. So earning £30,000 a yr means you can afford to send your kids to uni? Think again. It's jack squat compared to anyhting else.

I'm lucky because my brother didn't go to uni - if he had, I'd have no financial support whatsoever from my parents - they help where they can. SO if I was poor, does that mean I shouldn't get the opportunity? My LEA thinks so.

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