I would not have gone to university if fees had been £9k a year and the job market how it is now. I would have got a job at the power plant or something,as the concept of £45,000 of debt before you start your working life is mind boggling to a lad from a council estate.
For those youngsters that have the bottle to do it, fair play to them. But my blood would boil if I was belittled and told I had it easy.
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We now have recent graduates paying around £180 a month(inflation +3%) on student loan repayments applying for jobs that 30-40 years ago you wouldn't even needed a degree for, and whose pay in real terms is below what it would have been back then and whose loan repayment eats into any mortgage he/she might be looking to get.
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I can relate. I contacted the student finance company last month to inquire as to why the amount owed on my loan was still so substantial. Turns out that the first £170 of the 200+ I've been paying every month for years is the bloody interest! I wanted to cry.
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Haha my wife the same, in her last year of nursing she switched from diploma to degree and had to take loan for that year, after experiencing what you've just experienced she's since switched to a bank loan.
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comment by Galvino did flow. “I don't really know what I'm doing here! (U10415)
posted less than a minute ago
My son is doing that right now.
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I know that, though it wasn't my place to offer up your son as an example.
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comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 4 seconds ago
comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 1 minute ago
We now have recent graduates paying around £180 a month(inflation +3%) on student loan repayments applying for jobs that 30-40 years ago you wouldn't even needed a degree for, and whose pay in real terms is below what it would have been back then and whose loan repayment eats into any mortgage he/she might be looking to get.
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I can relate. I contacted the student finance company last month to inquire as to why the amount owed on my loan was still so substantial. Turns out that the first £170 of the 200+ I've been paying every month for years is the bloody interest! I wanted to cry.
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Haha my wife the same, in her last year of nursing she switched from diploma to degree and had to take loan for that year, after experiencing what you've just experienced she's since switched to a bank loan.
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I was mortified. I contacted the bank to book an appointment to discuss a consolidation loan to see if it was even a feasible option. Doubt the repayments will be any cheaper, but one can hope.
Is there any point in going to Uni anymore,unless you are really brainy,media studies and travel and tourism seem a waste of time and money.
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comment by groovyduringthewar (U1054)
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Is there any point in going to Uni anymore,unless you are really brainy,media studies and travel and tourism seem a waste of time and money.
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I wouldn't go again if I had a go-over.
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comment by Galvino did flow. “I don't really know what I'm doing here! (U10415)
posted 5 seconds ago
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posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Galvino did flow. “I don't really know what I'm doing here! (U10415)
posted less than a minute ago
My son is doing that right now.
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I know that, though it wasn't my place to offer up your son as an example.
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No worries, thought you were generalising anyway
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I was, but your son popped into my head as someone who is very much a case in point. Who I am sure is as hard working as you, your father and your fathers father.
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comment by Wearethefamous THFC .. Bored of Football (U19211)
posted 19 minutes ago
Agree galv but its getting worse.. Schools hospitals doctors all struggling.. whats the solution ?
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This crazy thing called investment in public infrastructure by the govt.
Crazy, I know
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comment by Wearethefamous THFC .. Bored of Football (U19211)
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what about his fathers fathers farther ,
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He worked really hard.
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comment by Galvino did flow. “I don't really know what I'm doing here! (U10415)
posted 51 seconds ago
I'm an un-ambitious caant for my own reasons...............but I instilled the opposite in my sons.
One of which is studying law and the other wants to be a surgeon...
My Father was a hard worker however......manual stuff..........which I much prefer but its not where I find myself....
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Our youth is certainly not lazy Jeremy Kyle fodder, far from it or privileged made in Chelsea morons.
My dad was born in 1947, thankfully my grandparents were able to send him to Uni, he moved to italy afterwards, got his doctorate, met my mum and the rest is history.
Was a director for a large multinational oil and gas company and all of us went to Uni with zero debt. ALl graduates, all of us have 2-3 degrees.
The advantages I have had in life because of the privileges of my dad's generation cannot be defned.
Yet some people do not want their countrymen to enjoy the same benefits
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comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 11 minutes ago
My dad was born in 1947, thankfully my grandparents were able to send him to Uni, he moved to italy afterwards, got his doctorate, met my mum and the rest is history.
Was a director for a large multinational oil and gas company and all of us went to Uni with zero debt. ALl graduates, all of us have 2-3 degrees.
The advantages I have had in life because of the privileges of my dad's generation cannot be defned.
Yet some people do not want their countrymen to enjoy the same benefits
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That generation still maintain control. They vote en masse as is their right and the two political parties structure their policies in order ro not upset them. My Father and Mother were born in 1944 and they admit that they have have had it relatively easy.
Meanwhile the government continue to hammer the young, with the security that they won't get off their collective backsides and change their future prospects by using their democratic right.
Look at the benefits bill. The unemployed are demonised in this country for claiming benefits, yet pensions remain untouched.
The previous generation have the current generation in a firm testicular grip. The political apathy of the young disgusts me.
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Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, said anyone wanting access to the EU's internal market had to adhere to strict criteria "without exception".
The German and French leaders and the Council President said the same.
Donald Tusk said there would be another meeting of EU leaders, excluding the UK, on 16 September in Bratislava.
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I would not have gone to university if fees had been £9k a year and the job market how it is now. I would have got a job at the power plant or something,as the concept of £45,000 of debt before you start your working life is mind boggling to a lad from a council estate.
For those youngsters that have the bottle to do it, fair play to them. But my blood would boil if I was belittled and told I had it easy.
posted on 29/6/16
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posted on 29/6/16
comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 4 seconds ago
comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 1 minute ago
We now have recent graduates paying around £180 a month(inflation +3%) on student loan repayments applying for jobs that 30-40 years ago you wouldn't even needed a degree for, and whose pay in real terms is below what it would have been back then and whose loan repayment eats into any mortgage he/she might be looking to get.
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I can relate. I contacted the student finance company last month to inquire as to why the amount owed on my loan was still so substantial. Turns out that the first £170 of the 200+ I've been paying every month for years is the bloody interest! I wanted to cry.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Haha my wife the same, in her last year of nursing she switched from diploma to degree and had to take loan for that year, after experiencing what you've just experienced she's since switched to a bank loan.
posted on 29/6/16
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posted on 29/6/16
comment by Galvino did flow. “I don't really know what I'm doing here! (U10415)
posted less than a minute ago
My son is doing that right now.
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I know that, though it wasn't my place to offer up your son as an example.
posted on 29/6/16
comment by Bobby Dazzler (U1449)
posted 3 seconds ago
comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 4 seconds ago
comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 1 minute ago
We now have recent graduates paying around £180 a month(inflation +3%) on student loan repayments applying for jobs that 30-40 years ago you wouldn't even needed a degree for, and whose pay in real terms is below what it would have been back then and whose loan repayment eats into any mortgage he/she might be looking to get.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I can relate. I contacted the student finance company last month to inquire as to why the amount owed on my loan was still so substantial. Turns out that the first £170 of the 200+ I've been paying every month for years is the bloody interest! I wanted to cry.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Haha my wife the same, in her last year of nursing she switched from diploma to degree and had to take loan for that year, after experiencing what you've just experienced she's since switched to a bank loan.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I was mortified. I contacted the bank to book an appointment to discuss a consolidation loan to see if it was even a feasible option. Doubt the repayments will be any cheaper, but one can hope.
posted on 29/6/16
Is there any point in going to Uni anymore,unless you are really brainy,media studies and travel and tourism seem a waste of time and money.
posted on 29/6/16
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posted on 29/6/16
comment by groovyduringthewar (U1054)
posted 52 seconds ago
Is there any point in going to Uni anymore,unless you are really brainy,media studies and travel and tourism seem a waste of time and money.
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I wouldn't go again if I had a go-over.
posted on 29/6/16
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posted on 29/6/16
comment by Galvino did flow. “I don't really know what I'm doing here! (U10415)
posted 5 seconds ago
comment by Admin1 (U1)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Galvino did flow. “I don't really know what I'm doing here! (U10415)
posted less than a minute ago
My son is doing that right now.
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I know that, though it wasn't my place to offer up your son as an example.
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No worries, thought you were generalising anyway
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I was, but your son popped into my head as someone who is very much a case in point. Who I am sure is as hard working as you, your father and your fathers father.
posted on 29/6/16
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posted on 29/6/16
comment by Wearethefamous THFC .. Bored of Football (U19211)
posted 19 minutes ago
Agree galv but its getting worse.. Schools hospitals doctors all struggling.. whats the solution ?
=================
This crazy thing called investment in public infrastructure by the govt.
Crazy, I know
posted on 29/6/16
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posted on 29/6/16
comment by Wearethefamous THFC .. Bored of Football (U19211)
posted 38 seconds ago
what about his fathers fathers farther ,
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He worked really hard.
posted on 29/6/16
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posted on 29/6/16
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posted on 29/6/16
comment by Galvino did flow. “I don't really know what I'm doing here! (U10415)
posted 51 seconds ago
I'm an un-ambitious caant for my own reasons...............but I instilled the opposite in my sons.
One of which is studying law and the other wants to be a surgeon...
My Father was a hard worker however......manual stuff..........which I much prefer but its not where I find myself....
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Our youth is certainly not lazy Jeremy Kyle fodder, far from it or privileged made in Chelsea morons.
posted on 29/6/16
My dad was born in 1947, thankfully my grandparents were able to send him to Uni, he moved to italy afterwards, got his doctorate, met my mum and the rest is history.
Was a director for a large multinational oil and gas company and all of us went to Uni with zero debt. ALl graduates, all of us have 2-3 degrees.
The advantages I have had in life because of the privileges of my dad's generation cannot be defned.
Yet some people do not want their countrymen to enjoy the same benefits
posted on 29/6/16
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posted on 29/6/16
comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 11 minutes ago
My dad was born in 1947, thankfully my grandparents were able to send him to Uni, he moved to italy afterwards, got his doctorate, met my mum and the rest is history.
Was a director for a large multinational oil and gas company and all of us went to Uni with zero debt. ALl graduates, all of us have 2-3 degrees.
The advantages I have had in life because of the privileges of my dad's generation cannot be defned.
Yet some people do not want their countrymen to enjoy the same benefits
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That generation still maintain control. They vote en masse as is their right and the two political parties structure their policies in order ro not upset them. My Father and Mother were born in 1944 and they admit that they have have had it relatively easy.
Meanwhile the government continue to hammer the young, with the security that they won't get off their collective backsides and change their future prospects by using their democratic right.
Look at the benefits bill. The unemployed are demonised in this country for claiming benefits, yet pensions remain untouched.
The previous generation have the current generation in a firm testicular grip. The political apathy of the young disgusts me.
posted on 29/6/16
BREAKING: EU warns Britain on freedom of movement
There can be "no single market a la carte" for the UK, EU leaders have warned, after meeting in Brussels to discuss the UK vote to leave the bloc.
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, said anyone wanting access to the EU's internal market had to adhere to strict criteria "without exception".
The German and French leaders and the Council President said the same.
Donald Tusk said there would be another meeting of EU leaders, excluding the UK, on 16 September in Bratislava.
posted on 29/6/16
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Patrick Stewart sketch: What has the ECHR ever done for us?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfmAY6M6aA
The man is a legend
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