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Educational Maintainance Allowance (EMA)

Former Member · 2004-12-28 18:28:48

What is EMA? Or drinking, clothes, cinema... Ahem. EMA. Is it worthwhile? Do you think it is better that children stay on in education because they actually want to or because they're being paid to? When I was in the sixth form my school took part in a pilot scheme for EMA. Only those students who lived in Gateshead could…

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Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

January 2005

Originally posted by *DEVIL*
Yeah but like i said if you go to uni your fucked because you have been mollycodled and 'protected' into thinking that money grows on trees and that you are given pocket money each week.

Not true, extremely annoying.

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