I mean, hungry kids aren’t studying very hard, are they? This country and this entire economic system is a mess, but at least the rich are getting richer.
I had part time jobs during uni. It kept me off the piss and lessened my loans ..
Best lesson is nothing is free.
I know Bournemouth Uni now has its own food bank because of this issue, something I am confident is being replicated across the country (or soon will be). I did not work during uni and could still afford to feed myself well enough on £25 a week (not including alcohol). As with school kids, if you want future generations to be as intelligent and skilled as possible, eating well plays a pivotal role in that. We are failing young people of all ages by making it difficult for them to be fed properly.
Student loans then tuition fees then covid isolation haven’t managed to stop poor people going to uni so now we’ll try starvation /s
Oh definitely. Luckily I worked full time while studying in first year so I can afford it this year (hopefully), but the cost of food has almost doubled for me for the same stuff.
Rooms are £600 per month these days, back when I was at uni they were about £300. Not to mention energy and food costs, the maintenance grants should be at least double but I really doubt they are
Get a part time job students. I worked 25 hours a week while doing my undergrad degree.
I’ll believe it when I see the student nights not happening in town and the students living on the estates near uni instead of the centre of town
Edit. Aww students don’t like the hard truth. 55,000 of you not paying council tax, destroying the ability for locals to rent with maintenance loans and a massive rise in antisocial crime.
Funny because all the student housing/ accommodation I’ve worked on over the years they tend to pick alcohol above both 🤣
That’s like saying “students must choose between execution or a milkshake”. Ridiculous. Nobody is forced to study, but we need to eat to live.
I was just looking through my emails, and while i graduated 2 years ago, i still get emails from my university (no idea why but hey ho).
One of them was from the department head mentioned that a substantial amount of students have asked to defer their studies or study remotely due to family, health or cost of living issues. While remote study isn’t possible as the uni will kick them off the course for no attending in person, they’ve been asked to apply for mitigating circumstances and they will be accepted.
Even now i have a full time job, living at home and contributing a little whilst looking to study my Master’s part time next year. I’m dreading to see what’s going to happen by then!
My son is doing his A levels this year and should start Uni next Sept. He won’t be eligible for much support due to our household income and I am dreading it atm. He would like to go to Bristol and his interest is in biochemistry. The costs are ridiculous.
They take into account our yearly income but not our expenses or how many children is in household. It doesn’t matter how much mortgage we pay, that I still pay my student loans off, that we have unsecured loans we had to take for home maintenance or that we have more dependants.
My son is now working casual job during school breaks to save some money for next year as he won’t be able to work during first year of Uni.
When I was doing my undergrad in 2016 it wasn’t uncommon to hear of students on my course missing lectures because they had to work almost full time to afford rent, a friend of mine revealed she was living on rice because she couldn’t afford rent. I can’t even imagine how it is now.
Working two jobs through university, both jobs over the minimum wage, and still I’m forced to go into my overdraft, even with my maintenance loan, which is one of the lowest. My rent isn’t even that high, what eats away is the price of food and transport to get to uni. Before anyone asks, yes of course I go out I’m a student. But I don’t spend money on pointless crap, we always try to pre drink so barely any money is spent on overpriced bar drinks. It’s shocking. Many of my friends in the same situation. Also dire as some are sportsmen/women, who need a lot of food to keep up w their lifestyle. We continuously feel overlooked by everyone.
Back in my day, we used to work for our lunch and fit our studies in around our orgies and all-night parties.
Gen-x don’t know they’re born. 🙄
Get OF’ on the go like every other student!
I hate this government. We have seen so many of these headlines now. “Cost of Living Crisis Forces XXXXX to chose between food and XXXXXX”
Nurses, teachers, policemen, mums, students….
Fuck this government. Heartless bastards. We are an impoverished country with a smattering of millionaires and billionaires. They’ve already pillaged the working class and now they are coming for the middle class. We are increasingly becoming an oligarchy.
Or between studying, eating and writing comments on Reddit.
The cost of living whilst studying at uni has been bubbling for years. Having a job whilst at uni is becoming the expected norm when I personally think it shouldn’t. You should be able to commit to studying and also able to have a life and enjoy the uni experience. It’s hard to enjoy the uni experience when it’s 9-5 for lecturers, then coming back to having to go work potentially late into the night if its a club bartenders job.
My parents just about got me through uni and I’m still paying my overdraft off a year into my grad job, though that’s more to do with the fact I could have saved a bit better by not holidaying. There was an initial consideration that my sister couldn’t even afford to go to university full stop. She’s gone to Exeter and her rent is ridiculously expensive compared to what I paid at uni, and ridiculous compared to what I pay now. She has a student shoe box and I have a two bedroom house for half the price.
Hasn’t it always been eating or drinking for students?
A lot of people on here act like it should be easy for students to work but they don’t seem to consider that some courses are much more intense and have a heavier workload than others.
Last year my grades dropped significantly (I had been getting firsts in the previous two years and dropped down to a fairly low 2:1) and I know it was because of all the hours I was working. I was so stressed and exhausted all the time and never really found the time to study properly. I was barely taking anything in. It’s just not possible to learn and work productively when you’re that tired, and there’s only so many hours in the day. And I’m not workshy, I’m a mature student who prior to studying worked as a chef, doing 14+ hour days for years.
This year I haven’t got a job because I need to try and pull my grades back up but being able to afford to just live is worrying me. And I’m lucky enough to get the full student loan (just over £9000). A lot of students don’t get the full one but that doesn’t mean their parents can afford to help them either.
It’s just really sad that instead of enabling people to be the next generation of scientists (in the case of my course) we’re forcing them to spend so much time worrying about living instead of studying.
Already there working 4 days a week plus a STEM subject and still running up debt to pay my rent. Unis just brought in a food bank and a shared pantry where we can share food we don’t need … tragic stuff. Had to get a hardship fund last year and will have to get one again this year
I’ve already missed a couple sessions because of work, I’m in my final year. Some of my friends dropped out because they couldn’t afford their rent
My friend is at Leeds uni and for 2 days this week he just ate bowls of rice until he got paid. This shit is real and it’s horrifying.
If students were put through such a stress during education how would they think about nation and contribute to the growth of the nation or society after they graduate.
For instance, a law student with a huge financial debt after Graduation would have no choice and just represent a company that does bad things to the environment as long the company pays him well.
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I mean, hungry kids aren’t studying very hard, are they? This country and this entire economic system is a mess, but at least the rich are getting richer.
I had part time jobs during uni. It kept me off the piss and lessened my loans ..
Best lesson is nothing is free.
I know Bournemouth Uni now has its own food bank because of this issue, something I am confident is being replicated across the country (or soon will be). I did not work during uni and could still afford to feed myself well enough on £25 a week (not including alcohol). As with school kids, if you want future generations to be as intelligent and skilled as possible, eating well plays a pivotal role in that. We are failing young people of all ages by making it difficult for them to be fed properly.
Student loans then tuition fees then covid isolation haven’t managed to stop poor people going to uni so now we’ll try starvation /s
Oh definitely. Luckily I worked full time while studying in first year so I can afford it this year (hopefully), but the cost of food has almost doubled for me for the same stuff.
Rooms are £600 per month these days, back when I was at uni they were about £300. Not to mention energy and food costs, the maintenance grants should be at least double but I really doubt they are
Get a part time job students. I worked 25 hours a week while doing my undergrad degree.
I’ll believe it when I see the student nights not happening in town and the students living on the estates near uni instead of the centre of town
Edit. Aww students don’t like the hard truth. 55,000 of you not paying council tax, destroying the ability for locals to rent with maintenance loans and a massive rise in antisocial crime.
Funny because all the student housing/ accommodation I’ve worked on over the years they tend to pick alcohol above both 🤣
That’s like saying “students must choose between execution or a milkshake”. Ridiculous. Nobody is forced to study, but we need to eat to live.
I was just looking through my emails, and while i graduated 2 years ago, i still get emails from my university (no idea why but hey ho).
One of them was from the department head mentioned that a substantial amount of students have asked to defer their studies or study remotely due to family, health or cost of living issues. While remote study isn’t possible as the uni will kick them off the course for no attending in person, they’ve been asked to apply for mitigating circumstances and they will be accepted.
Even now i have a full time job, living at home and contributing a little whilst looking to study my Master’s part time next year. I’m dreading to see what’s going to happen by then!
My son is doing his A levels this year and should start Uni next Sept. He won’t be eligible for much support due to our household income and I am dreading it atm. He would like to go to Bristol and his interest is in biochemistry. The costs are ridiculous.
They take into account our yearly income but not our expenses or how many children is in household. It doesn’t matter how much mortgage we pay, that I still pay my student loans off, that we have unsecured loans we had to take for home maintenance or that we have more dependants.
My son is now working casual job during school breaks to save some money for next year as he won’t be able to work during first year of Uni.
When I was doing my undergrad in 2016 it wasn’t uncommon to hear of students on my course missing lectures because they had to work almost full time to afford rent, a friend of mine revealed she was living on rice because she couldn’t afford rent. I can’t even imagine how it is now.
Working two jobs through university, both jobs over the minimum wage, and still I’m forced to go into my overdraft, even with my maintenance loan, which is one of the lowest. My rent isn’t even that high, what eats away is the price of food and transport to get to uni. Before anyone asks, yes of course I go out I’m a student. But I don’t spend money on pointless crap, we always try to pre drink so barely any money is spent on overpriced bar drinks. It’s shocking. Many of my friends in the same situation. Also dire as some are sportsmen/women, who need a lot of food to keep up w their lifestyle. We continuously feel overlooked by everyone.
Back in my day, we used to work for our lunch and fit our studies in around our orgies and all-night parties.
Gen-x don’t know they’re born. 🙄
Get OF’ on the go like every other student!
I hate this government. We have seen so many of these headlines now. “Cost of Living Crisis Forces XXXXX to chose between food and XXXXXX”
Nurses, teachers, policemen, mums, students….
Fuck this government. Heartless bastards. We are an impoverished country with a smattering of millionaires and billionaires. They’ve already pillaged the working class and now they are coming for the middle class. We are increasingly becoming an oligarchy.
Or between studying, eating and writing comments on Reddit.
The cost of living whilst studying at uni has been bubbling for years. Having a job whilst at uni is becoming the expected norm when I personally think it shouldn’t. You should be able to commit to studying and also able to have a life and enjoy the uni experience. It’s hard to enjoy the uni experience when it’s 9-5 for lecturers, then coming back to having to go work potentially late into the night if its a club bartenders job.
My parents just about got me through uni and I’m still paying my overdraft off a year into my grad job, though that’s more to do with the fact I could have saved a bit better by not holidaying. There was an initial consideration that my sister couldn’t even afford to go to university full stop. She’s gone to Exeter and her rent is ridiculously expensive compared to what I paid at uni, and ridiculous compared to what I pay now. She has a student shoe box and I have a two bedroom house for half the price.
Hasn’t it always been eating or drinking for students?
A lot of people on here act like it should be easy for students to work but they don’t seem to consider that some courses are much more intense and have a heavier workload than others.
Last year my grades dropped significantly (I had been getting firsts in the previous two years and dropped down to a fairly low 2:1) and I know it was because of all the hours I was working. I was so stressed and exhausted all the time and never really found the time to study properly. I was barely taking anything in. It’s just not possible to learn and work productively when you’re that tired, and there’s only so many hours in the day. And I’m not workshy, I’m a mature student who prior to studying worked as a chef, doing 14+ hour days for years.
This year I haven’t got a job because I need to try and pull my grades back up but being able to afford to just live is worrying me. And I’m lucky enough to get the full student loan (just over £9000). A lot of students don’t get the full one but that doesn’t mean their parents can afford to help them either.
It’s just really sad that instead of enabling people to be the next generation of scientists (in the case of my course) we’re forcing them to spend so much time worrying about living instead of studying.
Already there working 4 days a week plus a STEM subject and still running up debt to pay my rent. Unis just brought in a food bank and a shared pantry where we can share food we don’t need … tragic stuff. Had to get a hardship fund last year and will have to get one again this year
I’ve already missed a couple sessions because of work, I’m in my final year. Some of my friends dropped out because they couldn’t afford their rent
My friend is at Leeds uni and for 2 days this week he just ate bowls of rice until he got paid. This shit is real and it’s horrifying.
If students were put through such a stress during education how would they think about nation and contribute to the growth of the nation or society after they graduate.
For instance, a law student with a huge financial debt after Graduation would have no choice and just represent a company that does bad things to the environment as long the company pays him well.