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Food budget
My daughter has been at Uni for nearly 4 weeks and tells me she is spending no more than £15 a week on food!! She is a veggie and loves cooking, doesn't drink alcohol, but this seems very low to me. She is not a huge eater, but she does like her food. She is shopping at Aldi and freezing absolutely everything that she…
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University finance application divorced parents
Hi Im new to this and I'm after advice about student finance. I have lived with my partner for year and next year his daughter will be going to university. He and his ex have joint custody but she does spend more time at Mums and everything is registered at her address - gp, school, child benefit etc. The ex-wife earns…
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Estate agents charging £300 to clean a clean flat?
Hi, I’ve recently began my final year of studies and have just received an email from the estate agent I used when renting a flat last year, regarding cleaning charges. Upon arrival to my flat last year, the place was unfinished, with industrial everywhere, minimal furniture in place, and tools still lying around within…
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Student Finance Company PG course installments Rant
I have just started a masters course, part time.(Self funded) I applied for, (and was granted) a post graduate loan. Haven't received any of it yet, but that's another story. My uni offers the option of paying in installments which is great. But the way the student finance co works, I will be left struggling for a couple…
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Is uni worth it.
I didn't vote on your uni question, as I think it also depends on the course, but even with a top university course I think there is a lot of luck involved. I think the best way is when an employer pays your university fees.
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Good news (for a change)
Hi Thought Id share my good news with everyone. I don't know if this has happened to anyone else yet, but I received a letter this week saying as I've hit the magical age of 50 and its been 25 years since I left university - my student loans have been written off. I had one of the very first student loans available and…
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Maintenance Loan NI
Hi, my son will (hopefully) be going away to university in 2018. His applications are predominantly in England although we live in NI. I've been researching maintenance loans and want to check what I'm reading is right..... English students attending English universities can apply for maximum of over £8k (means tested)…
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Query: Any benefit for sponsoring spouse's post graduation
Hey all! I have been following MSE forums for all my financial decisions and posting for the first time as i couldn't already find any thread related to my query. I am on a Tier 2 General visa in UK and would be sponsoring my spouse's(on Tier 2 Dependent) post graduation course. As she applied late for the course, we could…
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How to open a student bank account when studying at Open University?
I am studying at the open university fulltime and wonder if any bank account will accept me for a student bank account?
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Need Advice with finances: Dropping out of second year
Afternoon all, i'm currently in my first term of second year, and since day 1 of first year i had never really felt like university was for me, i don't like the course, nor can i think of a course id rather do and don't like the uni atmosphere. I just generally feel unhappy at uni and i don't want to continue through 3…
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Mugged Student Nurse
Hi everyone, I hope you're well. I am a 20 year old, third year student nurse. In desperate need of some help/advice. On the day of my huge practical exam I got mugged on university campus, 3 teengage lads on bikes rode past me and snatched my iPhone 6s from my hands as I was messaging a friend to let her know I was…
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Grants for 1st time university students.
Hi, while my daughter was in year 12 she was told because she would be the 1st of her family to go to uni that she would get help towards her uni fees. She now is about to start uni but we haven't had any help and don't no where we should go or do to find out how she would get the extra help. Has anyone gone through this…
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Maintenance loan query
My DD will (she hopes) be starting Uni in 2010 so the household income that will be used to determine her maintenance loan is 2018-19. Does she have to reapply every year or is the 5 years (long course) of loan calculated at the beginning and then used year on year? I can see that we could make massive pension…
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Can only 1st years get a student bank account?
Hi, I went into Santander today, hoping to get a student account with a free 4 year railcard, and was told that I couldn't open an account as I was in my second year of study. They told me that the rules had changed, and now you can only open a student account in your first year of university unless you are switching from…
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Student card
Is it possible to get a student card or ID for my teen girls who are at school as we intend to visit the Acropolis soonand you can go for free if you have a student card.Tia
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Student loan additional drawdown on statement... 5 years after finishing uni??
I left uni in 2012 and have just received a statement that has £3k 'drawdown' this year which means that despite making payments each month my overall balance has actually gone up this year. I called the SLC who said that sometimes universities are a 'bit late' with charging their fees correctly. I asked for them to send…
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Have you seen the O2 students and Monzo deal?
Looking for advice if is this is really as good as it seems :D You get 20% off airtime and a Monzo card with £30 credit, when you sign up or upgrade to a new O2 Refresh plan (google O2 students and it comes up!). Seems great and you get to skip the 3 week waiting list for a card! Has anyone already signed up or seen it??
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Is Glide(utility bills splitting for students) economical and customer friendly?
Hi all, My housemates and I are conflicted as to whether we use glide to manage our bills or simply phone up traditional bill companies. Around the web people claim that glide is vastly more expensive than traditional electric and gas companies, but I have found the reverse to be true. Our house holds 4 bedrooms and 4…
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My own money saving tips...
As a college student, if I want to have a trip, I need to learn how to save my money... Everyone who work hard every day for the living and feed the family, the wages are only in the hands for a little moment, then it gently and quietly go away, where the money is? Supermarket, hospital and school. There are really too…
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Anyone on this thread interested in discussing current affairs?
There's a forum on the site called Discussion time. I recently carried out an age survey on there and there wasn't a single person in the 18-24 group. I think the forum might benefit from a wider range of opinions, especially in view of the degree of polarisation in views and priorities between the young and old these days.
