the vast majority of loans go directly into paying for rent.

if that is the case how do they manage to go out and get pi$$ed every night? over-drafts? less sympathy!

Britain's binge culture helps, cheap drink everywhere.

as does stereotyping

I am not liking the way people are slagging off the students of leeds met how they waste there money in drink. I am a current student and i dont my money down the toilets. I also do not think poor people go there, i would not call my self poor but to be honest the 2000 pound tuition fees did encourage me to go as i saved 3000 in three years which for is is quite a lot. I feel if they put them up less people will want to go but because of the fees going up they would prob end up about equal.

And for the students who do there money away be grateful of the income for the area.

I think that most students just decide to write off the years at uni, and start life 20k in debt. HArdship loan extensions are not that hard to come by.

But it takes a long time to clear. I only had 9.5k as I was sensible, and its taken me 5 years to clear it, and I have well above the average graduate wage since leaving. An beacuse of the way its paid off the group of people earning less the 20k will never pay it off. IMO the loans thing has not really worked.

the way jordan goes on about it, we have the perfect example on here!

one student of the 200 000 in leeds, a first year student at that.

and maybe you cant sympathise with living within an overdraft, but there isnt much alternative for most students.

I would say the booze in headingley is not tht cheap in most pubs, yes there are offers on somedays but it is not stupidly cheap is it. Some nightclubs on the other hand can get very silly prices but generally in headingley it is about average i feel

i've been and done it, but didn't take out an overdraft!

Breaking my rule about responding on a thread started by someone called Lord Magoon...

If you want to reduce University fees then we have to stop letting thousands of thick people go to University.


Discuss......

congratulations, did you graduate before 2004 by any chance?

in 2005

I can also claim i have gone through leeds met without needing an overdraft. So it can be done

ok, so before the top up fees were implemented, and the culture of debt that now enshrines the majority of students

That culture has been around for a long time though its nothing new, and it is too easy for students to get into debt infact we have a system that actively encourages it.

it is possible to go through Uni without getting into extravagant amount of debt but most students don't/won't make that happen preferring to build problems for themselves when the graduate instead.