I managed all by myself, worked, studied , commuted , bought sold , completely ran out of money , ate just pasta for over a month and I honestly mean just pasta , left me with no debt though
So we've heard! Single - handedly responsible for the current first year intake at the University of Portsmouth
I have three children. One is 16 and has just been through the GCSE debacle, he's hardly stepped out the door since March. My middle son is 21 and has been working throughout, home based, doing essential road work licences for the local authority. My eldest is 23, graduated with a Masters and now finds himself working in a pub with little prospect of paying off the £40k debt he incurred, that's after me clearing another £20 of rent for him, but he's worked as much as possible, serving numerous customers every day, probably put himself at more risk than most people, for a minimum wage, zero hours contract. Perhaps I'm lucky with my three, perhaps that's why I see the generalisations as being unfair. So no offence meant by me, I do appreciate that we are dealing with this as best we can.
Yep, it's tough times. We're all prone to a bit of generalisation and exaggeration. Witness @davidoft reference to having any nuts at all..
The world is full of working class heros! I took redundancy and did a degree whilst working as an electrician every summer. But like you, I wasn't an 18 year old kid of this generation, and just like you I had a skill/trade to rely on and had lived a bit of a life before university at 27 But I don't expect everyone else to do the same.
There are lots of bursaries and scholarships available. They can also get full grants which go quite a way to cover living costs and accomodation costs.
There are but like most things you have to be in the know and it's mostly middle class people that are. For example a local charity/bursery bought my son a lovely new Apple laptop and dished him out £500/ year when he did his photography degree. We were the most deserving applicants. Why? Because the existence of these things aren't exactly publicised in the local paper, more like "who you know". It's quite possible we were the only applicants!
Agreed but how many of todays snowflakes actually think about getting part time work to make ends meet ? Many expect the full student experience but parents to foot the bill when it comes to topping up the money or funding a car , generous as it seems I can't see that helping to build an independent lifestyle . Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
Not in our case. We sorted bursary as above, he got his loans and grants (some is non-repayable if you're in the right income bracket) and told him he was on his own. He worked when he could and left uni with +£3k in his bank account.
Perhaps people are shy or have no confidence then, he had to be interviewed by the Dean of the local cathedral. This was a small arts specific one student per year thing and was definitely not generally advertised. My ex found out about it while hob-nobbing with the local coffee morning crowd ya.
