staffordjas
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I've noticed rooms advertised in Stafford lately at no where near as much as where son is! When he was in Halls in the first year he paid £5499 for the Sept-May (and beware...what they fail to tell you until move out time is that deductions are made from all the deposits for the shared halls if the last one moving out leaves a few crumbs in the kitchen etc even if it was spotless when your son/daughter moved out a few days earlier .... ) He did have one of the en-suite ones though, so more expensive. But even the cheapest ones with only a sink in the room weren't that much cheaper.It's around c£21K they start repaying for most grads with decent degrees an almost instant repayment start. I still find it hugely unpalatable that my daughter will lose a chunk of her salary to repay this debt, I find tuition fees themselves disgusting if I'm honest, and very devisive as many poorer kids ARE put off going to Uni as a result. I know a few who just don;t want 50K of debt around therir necks and so have chosen not to go. It is a choice, but I beleive all kids should have equal opportunity to go to Uni based on ability, not Mummy & Daddy's ability to part fund it
One of the reasons I wanted DD so close is that it retains the option of commuting for the 2nd or 3rd year, and it certainly sounds like this will be a very feasable option come her final year if she's only at Uni for 2 days. AS you so rightly say, £500 a month for 8 hours of lectures is dreadful. Having said that, Worcester sounds very expensive for student accomodation? £500?? Pretty sure a room in a shared house is about £200 plus bills in Liverpool, although halls will be more obviously!
I realise now that he would have been better commuting this final year. I say 8 hours a week, but apparently it isn't compulsory for him to attend most of them as I was told this morning when having a moan at him for missing yet another one
.One module is done and dusted as they went on a field trip to the Alps in May for this 3rd years assignment that has now been handed in.
He has to work on his Dissitation on his own, with the occasional meetings with the lecturer to check plans and progress.
So he only has this one module left, which according to him is the same stuff on a Thursday and Friday lecture
I must say I've only visited Liverpool the once, and thought it was a great place.
