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Student Finance
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As I imagine, everyone is now getting sick of preparing for, or hearing about student finance... but I think this question concerns everybody.
Now I have found out that I'll get a loan which will pay for my fees straight off, and then another loan of around £3,500 which will pay for accommodation. After that I have to rely on my family to provide for living expensives etc. is this right?
It doesn't seem right that I have to still rely on my family income when I'm at univerisity.
The government seems to enjoy giving a load of paper work which frankly, nobody; not even at the LEA office seems to understand... can anyone verify this or tell me where I am wrong?
Thanks in advance:D
Now I have found out that I'll get a loan which will pay for my fees straight off, and then another loan of around £3,500 which will pay for accommodation. After that I have to rely on my family to provide for living expensives etc. is this right?
It doesn't seem right that I have to still rely on my family income when I'm at univerisity.
The government seems to enjoy giving a load of paper work which frankly, nobody; not even at the LEA office seems to understand... can anyone verify this or tell me where I am wrong?
Thanks in advance:D
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You can always get a job. Life as a student doesn't cost that much.
Do you have to use all the loan for accommodation? Sounds very expensive.
The problem with getting a part time job is I'm doing medicine - so do not have as much free time as other courses:(
well unlike you i have to pay my fees up front. i get the standard £3400 odd loan and out of that pay my £1200 fees and half of my rent. however this year i'm going to apply for the extra £1200 to pay my fees as my rent is going up and my loan will be smaller.
and you're right, it's not fair that they assume that your parents are in a situation to be able to help you..or even want to. my parents are divorced and it's such idocracy that they go on my step-dads income as opposed to my dads.
I'd avoid Hull York, and be wary of Liverpool's emphasis on teach-yourself-medicine, or problem based learning as it euphemistically calls itself. Manchester's good so I hear but it's a big medical school and they've had some problems with too many graduates for too few jobs this year, leaving some of the newbies as yet jobless for August.
yeh, I'm not in the medical profession, but I've worked in a hospital before as a locum, so basically I get put where the staff are overworked because of staff cuts
but a lot of it is so badly managed, the amount of paper the board of directors goes through per day, and the fact they PRINT EMAILS to give them to people! just arrgh :banghead:
ps Don't forget Prince William is no longer at St Andrews so there's no reason to go there now. Unless you're a golfer.
I'm a bit of a traditionalist in that sense, and you will have seminars on specialist communication skills, such as breaking bad news or asking sensitive questions, which is standard stuff for a medical school.
And in the third year you'll be laughing with your phlebotomy experience. You may also be able to get a Saturday job whilst at uni doing that as well.