Am I the only one who is indifferent to the whole having the university experience.
There is nothing I’d hate more than living in a student apartment.
> Rising rents for halls of residence have also had him questioning whether to move home and save some money.
My rent at uni in 2016 was £98 pw (for 38 weeks) I got an evening meal every day of the week and a bus pass which let me use practically all EYMS buses within Hull (because the halls were a mile or so off campus).
In 2019 they put the prices up to £110 pw (for 38 wks) for what I was looking for, until they chose to close the off campus site. They offered me a room on campus but I still had to pay an extra £20 pw for the privilege (and I was on my year abroad at the time so it was all a massive faff).
The cheapest rent now is on-campus and at £140 pw (for 41 weeks now) completely self-catered and no bus pass. The most important expensive campus housing is £225 pw! I’m sure most people’s student finance will just about cover the rent but little else.
Universities maxed out the tution they could get for years, we were sold that this was just a maximum and that many universities would set their own individual prices… They didn’t.
Then after years of making bank, they have now increased year on year residential costs to squeeze every fucking penny they can from students.
The only positive to the pandemic was showing how many students didn’t need to go to campus just to get fucking robbed.
I recently graduated. My student loan easily covered cost of living, drinking 2x a week in nightclubs/pubs/predrinks, living in private halls (more expensive 112per week) and had a grand or 2 at the end of the year.
Students really should consider living costs etc when they choose a university. I know people going to places like bristol where the rents just fuck you in the arse and then complaining. Theres a place with potentially 1/2- 2/3rds the living cost just across the river which is also well regarded.
Theres universities which will give you basically 3 grand a year back because they lose students if they don’t charge 9 grand (lol) so they will hand you bursaries on a fucking plate. Maybe not as regarded – but they’ll suprise you and have a decent nightlife if thats what you want.
Won’t this cause more to do trade or something else?
Define the university experience.
When I went to Uni 10+ years ago. Accommodation would have been classed as slums nowadays. I loved it. That to me was the student experience. These fancy multi-tenant blocks were a very new thing at the time.
Post-grad I got to work in the student sector, specifically on these new multi-tenant student accommodations. And let me tell you, the majority of these building that I saw were bloody fantastic. Cinema rooms, gyms, games rooms, laundry rooms, top class Internet throughout. Furnished modern with brilliant amenities, common rooms, lovely kitchens, bathroom pods etc etc.
The first time I worked on one my first thought was “this is better than my house, its like a really nice hotel”
In fear of sounding like a boomer (I’m not). The value for money is still phenomenonal. I’m sorry to say, but you can’t have your cake and eat it on this occasion. You want cheaper accommodation, slum it like the students of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 00’s.
Maybe a controversial opinion, but I have little sympathy for students seeking 30k+ universitiy experience…
During my postgraduate studies I was a senior resident in an UG accommodation and that year I lost most of my compassion for students. They would stay up until 3am multiple times a week while neglecting their work, but then I would find them in tears scrambling to finish important assignments while complaining about how this situation affects their mental health. I would always advise dialing down on mid week raves to avail. The cycle would repeat every few weeks.
University experience to a great extent is a made up product to sell overpriced degrees with limited relevance to the actual job market. There are many better ways to be young, party and make friends while pursuing some useful practical courses.
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Im Currently doing a part time MA as a mature student and how the hell these 20-somethings manage is mystifying to me. 10 person flat share? Work all night? Appreciate the bank of mum and dad is the case for some but not all. Either way I won’t ever back a party that doesn’t invest in the future
Sucks.
Do another headline too: hundreds of thousands of working-age (and often in work) adults robbed of decent living experience. Amount of people teetering above the bread line is daft.
I think we paid like 68/week for a pretty nice, big house…but then you’ve got bills to pay for on top…and this was up north (Newcastle)
That was first year anyway, second was around the same but a smaller house and nothing worth noting, and after that more of the same.
I reckon trying to do it this way, with the way energy bills are going, would be rather difficult nowadays since this was pre-2010, which is a shame because having an actual house with some mates was fucking awesome
I went to uni in 2006 and got the full amount of grants which just about covered my student halls with en-suite and cleaner. Feels insanely privileged now.
Lmao wtf is “the university experience”?, you arent entitled to going clubbing, getting fucked up, waking up at 11 and then ordering deliveroo most days. Can’t afford that, tough shit. Maintenance loan not enough? Get a job.
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Am I the only one who is indifferent to the whole having the university experience.
There is nothing I’d hate more than living in a student apartment.
> Rising rents for halls of residence have also had him questioning whether to move home and save some money.
My rent at uni in 2016 was £98 pw (for 38 weeks) I got an evening meal every day of the week and a bus pass which let me use practically all EYMS buses within Hull (because the halls were a mile or so off campus).
In 2019 they put the prices up to £110 pw (for 38 wks) for what I was looking for, until they chose to close the off campus site. They offered me a room on campus but I still had to pay an extra £20 pw for the privilege (and I was on my year abroad at the time so it was all a massive faff).
The cheapest rent now is on-campus and at £140 pw (for 41 weeks now) completely self-catered and no bus pass. The most important expensive campus housing is £225 pw! I’m sure most people’s student finance will just about cover the rent but little else.
Universities maxed out the tution they could get for years, we were sold that this was just a maximum and that many universities would set their own individual prices… They didn’t.
Then after years of making bank, they have now increased year on year residential costs to squeeze every fucking penny they can from students.
The only positive to the pandemic was showing how many students didn’t need to go to campus just to get fucking robbed.
I recently graduated. My student loan easily covered cost of living, drinking 2x a week in nightclubs/pubs/predrinks, living in private halls (more expensive 112per week) and had a grand or 2 at the end of the year.
Students really should consider living costs etc when they choose a university. I know people going to places like bristol where the rents just fuck you in the arse and then complaining. Theres a place with potentially 1/2- 2/3rds the living cost just across the river which is also well regarded.
Theres universities which will give you basically 3 grand a year back because they lose students if they don’t charge 9 grand (lol) so they will hand you bursaries on a fucking plate. Maybe not as regarded – but they’ll suprise you and have a decent nightlife if thats what you want.
Won’t this cause more to do trade or something else?
Define the university experience.
When I went to Uni 10+ years ago. Accommodation would have been classed as slums nowadays. I loved it. That to me was the student experience. These fancy multi-tenant blocks were a very new thing at the time.
Post-grad I got to work in the student sector, specifically on these new multi-tenant student accommodations. And let me tell you, the majority of these building that I saw were bloody fantastic. Cinema rooms, gyms, games rooms, laundry rooms, top class Internet throughout. Furnished modern with brilliant amenities, common rooms, lovely kitchens, bathroom pods etc etc.
The first time I worked on one my first thought was “this is better than my house, its like a really nice hotel”
In fear of sounding like a boomer (I’m not). The value for money is still phenomenonal. I’m sorry to say, but you can’t have your cake and eat it on this occasion. You want cheaper accommodation, slum it like the students of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 00’s.
Maybe a controversial opinion, but I have little sympathy for students seeking 30k+ universitiy experience…
During my postgraduate studies I was a senior resident in an UG accommodation and that year I lost most of my compassion for students. They would stay up until 3am multiple times a week while neglecting their work, but then I would find them in tears scrambling to finish important assignments while complaining about how this situation affects their mental health. I would always advise dialing down on mid week raves to avail. The cycle would repeat every few weeks.
University experience to a great extent is a made up product to sell overpriced degrees with limited relevance to the actual job market. There are many better ways to be young, party and make friends while pursuing some useful practical courses.
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Im Currently doing a part time MA as a mature student and how the hell these 20-somethings manage is mystifying to me. 10 person flat share? Work all night? Appreciate the bank of mum and dad is the case for some but not all. Either way I won’t ever back a party that doesn’t invest in the future
Sucks.
Do another headline too: hundreds of thousands of working-age (and often in work) adults robbed of decent living experience. Amount of people teetering above the bread line is daft.
I think we paid like 68/week for a pretty nice, big house…but then you’ve got bills to pay for on top…and this was up north (Newcastle)
That was first year anyway, second was around the same but a smaller house and nothing worth noting, and after that more of the same.
I reckon trying to do it this way, with the way energy bills are going, would be rather difficult nowadays since this was pre-2010, which is a shame because having an actual house with some mates was fucking awesome
I went to uni in 2006 and got the full amount of grants which just about covered my student halls with en-suite and cleaner. Feels insanely privileged now.
Lmao wtf is “the university experience”?, you arent entitled to going clubbing, getting fucked up, waking up at 11 and then ordering deliveroo most days. Can’t afford that, tough shit. Maintenance loan not enough? Get a job.