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Postgrad student mortgages
Hello, I have just been awarded funding for a PhD which I didn't expect at all. Prior to receiving the award letter I had started a mortgage application (I have a fairly hefty deposit and work part-time and earning about 10k). I can just about buy a wee flat on a mortgage based on my part time work and my deposit. Then…
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Student Account With Bad Credit
Hey folks, My first post so thanks in advance! Annnyway, I'm 20 years old and I'm just about to start at Aston University. I've applied for a Student account at HSBC via the internet and Halifx at the branch. I've was delined by both. My credit rating is awful, although I am planing to clear my bedts in September as a 21st…
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Does Post graduate study really make you more employable?
If I go do a masters in Social work or a PGCE, then post graduate study should make me more employable. But does really doing a Masters in Healthcare Ethics or conflict studies really make me anymore employable than someone with a BA? :beer: :beer:
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Should I still make payments to SLC as a graduate student?
Ok, this might be a pretty silly question...I am due to start another degree next month as a graduate student & I still have around 7K SLC loan to pay off, on the 'new system' i.e. only start paying back once you earn over 15k or something. As I will be leaving full-time employment my payments will be stopping...the…
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A'level results
Can someone please tell me in the newspaper, publication of A'Level results, what does the number in brackets after the first number mean for e.g A Blog 3(1).
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Where are you going?
ok so we have our results and i'm interested to know where all 1st years are going and to do what....speak up...:D
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Forgotten to reapply for my student loan!!
I can't believe how stupid I have been! I have filled out the form and emailed my LEA so hopefully something will be done soon! Does anyone have any experience of this?!
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Bank Acc doing MA
Just having a ponder really. As we all know, when you're going into uni as an undergrad all the banks want you to have a student acc with an od and cc. They usually have some sort of incentive to join. I had my student acc with HSBC when I was an undergrad. After I graduated it was a graduate acc and now it's gone to…
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Free MP4 Player
Advertising from HSBC will mean you getting a free MP4 Player when you sign up to their student account. It will say while stocks last so book yourself into a meeting at your local branch now. how do you get the MP4 Player? Do you have to deposit £500 to get the MP4 Player?
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Disabled students taking science degrees.
To all you science people about. Someone I know has a physical disability which means he will find lab work hard. Which is okay in school as science contains no real lab work. He wants top do like medical science/ Biol/ Chem. Is there any help available to help disabled students in the lab or are science courses just not…
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Please could someone give advice
In a couple of years my daughter will be thinking about HE. She is starting her last year of year 11 and then going to sixth form after. I know its a bit early to think about this. She is very interested in graphic design and wanting to get a degree for this. She likes the idea of moving and living at Uni. However, there…
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Student Funding 2006/7 Article Discussion
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Student Room Insurance
Has anyone had any experience of who is good for student room insurance? I've heard alot of companies dont do it, only got a quote from Endsleigh so far.
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Student Finance for Married Abandoned Student
I have been married for 2 years and went to France to study for a few months from my University in England, and my husband kept on our rented flat in England with a view to joining me in France when he could sublet it. He never came, but disappeared instead. My Local Education Authority now say I must "prove" I have been…
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can i become a nurse/care assistant?
hi all i am a little bit of a failure as i have mucked up the last 10years of my life, but anyway i would love to become a nurse or a care assistant (that helps out in hospitals with care of the sick) :confused: is it possible? i have looked on websites and they all want certain things and i have no clue how to train…
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Back to uni in a month-- oh no
Oh great only another month until back to uni. Back for another year of stress, upset and depression. I got an email from a lecturer today as I asked him a few questions about final year projects, saying can I write an outline of what I want to do. Excuse me, I am a bit lost with it and was asking for a bit of help, but…
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Job while at Uni
My son has just been accepted for an IT course at Greenwich. He is a bit of a computer geek and has no idea of the real world and the value of money. He has applied for a student loan and seems to think that will cover everything, course, halls, food etc. Tried telling him the facts of life and that he needs to get a job…
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How to sign up to NTL (newbie question)
Basically I've been doing some studying :p I've finally come to a conclusion of exactly which NTL package I want to go for. I live in Milton Keynes but will be moving into a student house september 1st. Question is, can i ring or use the net to buy now, but it starts on the 1st wen i move in? Other problem is not sure if…
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Ideas for useful present for fresher
I have a godchild going to Uni next month and think it would be a good idea to buy a present that will come in useful. Have decided against money - experience tells me this will not be spent sensibly. ;) Will be in self catering hall on site - sensible but it will all be new (and times have changed since I was there). What…
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Graduate overdraft halved with no warning!
Hi I have a natwest Student/Graduate account, and I just wanted to warn other graduates out there. As you are all probably aware, the interest free overdraft is halved every year for three years following completion of your course, however I had always thought that a reminder of some sort would be sent to me to ensure that…
