"bert" ] wrote in message
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"Adrian" wrote in message
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On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:27:30 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

Perhaps you can help me here Bob (my dept has no undergrads so I don't
have any contact with this side of things)

1) Fees are paid by student loan with fairly easy repayment terms -
I'm
pretty clear about this part;

2) How does cost of living/rent work?

The student pays it out of 1, plus whatever they earn in a part time job
or three. Unless they've ****ed their loan up the wall, and can't be
arsed
to work, in which case it comes down to the parents.

A bit like real life, really, but for the fact that the loan has to be
paid back out of their future earnings.

The thing is, these are 18 year old kids who have no concept of "real
life" in the context of having 30 grand's worth of debt hanging around
their necks before they've even embarked on finding any kind of
employment. And with it being probably their first time away from home,
they are going to **** it up the wall. It's the nature of the beast. All
the university towns are full of clubs encouraging them to drink the night
away. And digs are a joke. Back in the day, accommodation outside of halls
was reasonably priced. Now, every Tom Dick and Harry has jumped on the
bandwagon, buying up every house that comes on the market, and converting
it to bedsits as cheap as they possibly can, and then renting them to the
students for amounts that are nothing short of extortion. The halls are
not that much better. One of the accommodations that my daughter had, was
so tiny, you could just about fit a bed in it. It was positively
claustrophobic, and expensive. About the only upside was that it was clean
and warm in the building, and there was a security guard in the foyer.

Arfa
But they're old enough to vote.
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bert


They're old enough to count as an adult at about 11 in Disney or in an
aircraft seat ... :-)

Arfa