Young people are getting shafted. £30k to go to Uni ? Unaffordable deposits on houses/high rents. They're simply subsidising the Baby Boomer generation. I'm surprised there hasn't been more protests at the way young people are disadvantaged in this country.
What a load of bollox. The baby boomer generation being subsidised? They were the ones who with their parents helped build the country up and paid their taxes, whilst having topay far higher rates for mortgages and loans than is the case nowadays. Young people are handed far more money by the state than they were in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Why should kids be given a free few years when they can go to uni and either spend a few years on a piss up which is a waste, study weak, irrelevant subjects which will not find them a job or go there, study hard and be rewarded with far higher salaries than they would otherwise have got for the ret of their lives? Why should others pay for this for them? Why can't they work to pay their way through like they do in America? Where incidentally a higher percentage of kids go through university than does in France where it is free.
If we're going down that route... I dont want kids and will never have kids. Conservative estimates suggest it costs the state 100k to put a kid through school and all associated NHS bills before it will start to pay tax. Most people have 2 kids. Where is my 200k tax rebate? Im not suggesting for one minute this happens, I know it wont. My point is if other people point the finger about paying for stuff then we can take it a lot further.
Why does every thread have to have an argument? I know it's a forum where everyone is free to post their thoughts, but come on lads!
I'm paying 9k a year fees, then 4.2k for accommodation for the year :| Leaves me with 3k to live off for the year, i pay back 12.5k each year for 3 years plus a placement year which i pay a lowered fee for. So i'll end up with about 40k worth of debt at the end of it. And Huddersfields a good Uni, i'm leaving Yorkshire to cross the borders into Lancashire University of Central Lancashire for me
A levels are getting too easy. even I got Biology and Psychology. And as Maureen Lipman said: "if you get an ology, you're a scientist!"
Pass rates have fallen for the past two years quite a bit. Not saying they aren't easier than they used to be. Also, Suited, don't patronize me you fascist.
Baby boomers (and I take it you are one of them) have had it easy. Here's one example: The financial crash of 2008 should have re-set house prices 25-30% less then they are today. Except that would have meant meltdown in the banking sector. Government policy is keep the bank solvents by artificial high house prices and the main beneficiary of that are the baby boomers. The biggest cost of living is a mortgage/rent. Young people are spending a much higher % of their income on shelter whilst the baby boomers continue to sit on £ billions of equity
congrats mate. I lived in Hudders for a couple of years but not for me. the uni life is great thou so you will have a blast
Where you living? The Ritz!? You are being fleeced for that accommodation mate... especially in Preston!
A sincere well done to you. I hope you enjoy it and make the best of it Macca. I teach in a university and in a not unrelated subject (let's say) and I assume you'll be doing the basic standard journalism stuff (media law, shorthand etc etc) before specialising? If so, enjoy the court and council elections reporting! Huddersfield is good and I know one or two folks there in the Media/journo/arts schools! If you can also get into doing local/community radio and provide some content reports/round-ups/live or documentary stuff related to sport it will stand you in good stead. Our Journalism school has John Inverdale as regular visiting speaker for sport and even I do a lecture for them. I'll say no more on that on here Good luck!
I think the closest thing to The Ritz in Preston is the ****ing Holiday Inn. The accommodation is so cheap compared to most Uni's, my Insurance was Liverpool John Moores and they was charging from £114 upwards PER WEEK for theirs so would of been around £5,000 or more....its ridiculous.
First of all â congratulations. Bur please, please, please DO NOT call it âUniâ â only the ****in type of student calls it that. Not sure what Hudds is like, but make use of the library if it's a decent one. When I went to university the library was ****ing ace â I read **** loads of stuff away from the discipline I was studying; from classics to stuff Iâd just heard name checked and importantly stuff Iâd never have been able to access or easily access at other libraries/shops.
