UNIVERSITY FEES

[mollykins]

They've finally decided to cap the limit at £9000 a year!!!!!!!!! How are students going to afford this????????

[ummmm]

Ok...got you.

[redcrx]

exactly,lofty! gone are the days when youll see "forever students" who seem to be at uni studying nothing specific until they are in their late 20s. Its a commitment towards their future, certainly worth paying for.

[jaydah]

When you graduate Molly, how much debt would you have before you embark on your career ?

Can your father mortgage the house for your fees ?

[sandyRoe]

But if they had to get a job when would they have time to do their drinking?

[woofgang]

It was the Blair administration whose declared goal was that everyone should have a degree.

[ChuckFickens]

"declared goal was that everyone should have a degree."

Noooooo!!!

we need some people who are actually capable of doing proper jobs without having their hands held all the time!

[LoftyLottie]

Red Helen, with quite a few degrees it is impossible to work as well. There are lectures and work every day and sometimes into the evening as well. A lot of engineering type degrees are like that. Possibly a lot easier to get work when you do a degree that involves lots of work away from the university and loads of essay type course work that you can do at any time. My son would have found it impossible to work. However, he worked hard and long hours during vacations.

[sophie_1003]

red- we've been told that for every hour that we are in lectures we should do 3 hours of self study (in addition to work for assignments) this means that we should be doing 40hours a week altogether with assignments on top of that so in my course at least it is counted as a full time course. In addition to this we have placements each year which mean we are in schools Monday to Friday; it's not always as easy as just getting a job. Which; may I add, most people in my class have it's just that they can only commit to regularly work Saturdays and/or Sundays!

[yelenots]

Redhelen.....my daughter is in her final year studying Radiography, she is on hospital placement for most of the 3rd year, working from 9-5pm and night shifts - Monday-Friday how is she supposed to get a part time job? Her weekends are spend doing assignments & studying!

[factor-fiction]

Molly- someone else may have covered this (I haven't studied every post in the thread) But I'm sure you'll incur tuition fees regardless of whether your mum and died are working/retired/unemployed. Their income is only relevant in a calculation of whether you would get a small maintenance grant towards living costs.

[factor-fiction]

... sorry, that should have read Mum and Dad (not Mum and Died- don't know where that came from!)

[Eve]

Like others have said, if you want it enough then you will have the drive to work to pay for it.

I did a law degree, it was one of the heavier courses timetable wise (compared to friends doing courses such as English, History, Media Studies etc...) and harder to work during term time but I did all kinds of jobs on the weekends and worked crazy hours in the holidays, staying and renting somewhere cheap rather than going home.

I did all sorts from supermarket work to Burger King, waitressing, cleaning, kitchen work, working in an estage agency. I used to do numerous shifts a day in some jobs like the supermarket one at some times.

I did a vocational degree followed by law school and went on to qualify as a solicitor so I'm with China on the 30+ unwed, no kids but a career bandwagon ;) I can also speak for other female friends who did degrees who are solicitors, teachers, industry scientists, lecturers and all sorts of other professionals, making very good use of their qualifications.

Similarly I have a number of successful female friends with no degree with great careers, if you have the drive and the work ethic then the sky is the limit.

[yogi-bear]

I'm planning to do a bank job......just need to recruit some guys from AB........thinking sqad, doc, mark rae, chuck, vibes and bobjugs ( but he'll probably bring No Mercy and we'll have to wait for her when we leg it, so maybe not, eh)

[sara3]

yogi. I'll drive. I'm the best man for the job!

btw, I left school at 16 with my O Levels, and have had a perfectly reasonable career.

[yogi-bear]

Hiya sara,

You're in, sweetheart :0) x

Me too, sara.........left school at 16 with O'Levels and GCSE's.

[society]

Anything you want badly is always worth a sacrifice. Many people are forced to work and study in order for them to afford their tuition.