Student Accommodation problem, advice needed

MrsManda

Did the university tell your daughter she'd be in lectures every day or did they just tell her it was a full time course?
As Poet said, a full time course can mean only 2 days in university. Courses which are classed as part-time are funded differently and the student is entitled to less funding from student finance.

amandathepanda

MrsManda wrote: »

Did the university tell your daughter she'd be in lectures every day or did they just tell her it was a full time course?
As Poet said, a full time course can mean only 2 days in university. Courses which are classed as part-time are funded differently and the student is entitled to less funding from student finance.

No they told her she would be in lectures every day, which is why she took up the accommodation, otherwise she would have commuted as she is a very much a home bird (although I expect more to see her boyfriend than me)
Thanks everyone for your advice.

MrsManda

Just something to think about with regards to the rest of her degree. If she decides to stay at home she needs to be certain she will be able to commute everyday should that be required as the layout of her course in first year is likely to be different to the layout in second and third year.
Or at very least, she has friends who are willing to lend her floor space if she needs it

devildog

In her position I think I would write to the Uni. My daughter is also coming to the end of her first year-her first choice of accomodation was a 'party' block, fortunately she got her second choice(my preferred option) and has now said that she is glad that she got put where she is.
There wasn't a choice of her going to uni locally(doesn't have her subject there) but I still have a gripe about how long the courses are and the fact that they get into so much debt and I am sure that a fair few courses could be condensed down (in her case she has 10 hours of lectures a week)
I know that there are those of you that will say about independant study etc-yes she does all that too and still has time to spare.
Surely if these kids (sorry students) are as bright as they are supposed to be then they would cope with the courses being condensed down.

poet123

devildog wrote: »

In her position I think I would write to the Uni. My daughter is also coming to the end of her first year-her first choice of accomodation was a 'party' block, fortunately she got her second choice(my preferred option) and has now said that she is glad that she got put where she is.
There wasn't a choice of her going to uni locally(doesn't have her subject there) but I still have a gripe about how long the courses are and the fact that they get into so much debt and I am sure that a fair few courses could be condensed down (in her case she has 10 hours of lectures a week)
I know that there are those of you that will say about independant study etc-yes she does all that too and still has time to spare.
Surely if these kids (sorry students) are as bright as they are supposed to be then they would cope with the courses being condensed down.

I agree with your point, but sadly that won't help/isn't really relevant to the OP,she acted on correct information form the Uni (in that it is a full time course) and made a decision accordingly. The fact that she now believes she could have structured her week differently and travelled, is just one of those things and a learning curve.

amandathepanda

Mankysteve wrote: »

I think you need to let your daughter fight her own battles. Encourage her to do it but let her do it. She an adult now its a fight for her and her class mates not you.

She is fighting her own battles, I told her I'm not getting involved, but she asked for my advice, you make it sound like I am interfering, and I'm not.
If she had been given the correct information at the start of the course she would have made the decision to stay at home. My best advice to her was just to put it down to experience.

devildog

I would still get her to write to the uni about it. I am not saying that it is going to get her anywhere(like a refund) but when op asked the question (to the uni) and was told that daughter would be attending lectures most days and this was not the case-she acted on incorrect information. How could they make an informed decision when given misleading information?
The student has now moved back home-you have to ask who benefits here(financially wise) obviously the Uni and I think that too often people in any number of given situations put things down to experience and what they should be doing is kicking up a fuss.
But that is me, I am like a dog with a bone

iamana1ias

devildog wrote: »

Surely if these kids (sorry students) are as bright as they are supposed to be then they would cope with the courses being condensed down.

Uni isn't about being bright these days! If you can pay, you can go!

Rosemary7391

devildog wrote: »

In her position I think I would write to the Uni. My daughter is also coming to the end of her first year-her first choice of accomodation was a 'party' block, fortunately she got her second choice(my preferred option) and has now said that she is glad that she got put where she is.
There wasn't a choice of her going to uni locally(doesn't have her subject there) but I still have a gripe about how long the courses are and the fact that they get into so much debt and I am sure that a fair few courses could be condensed down (in her case she has 10 hours of lectures a week)
I know that there are those of you that will say about independant study etc-yes she does all that too and still has time to spare.
Surely if these kids (sorry students) are as bright as they are supposed to be then they would cope with the courses being condensed down.

I'm not sure I'd like my course being condensed down! It is 20 hours a week of contact time, and an awful lot more than that of learning/doing formative and summative work. Our terms are short and by the time I get to the end of them I need a break, as do most people.

Do unis not operate a questionnaire for first year accommodation? I know I got one, I had to fill in some things about myself and we all got put with fairly like minded people, eg my corridor's idea of a party is fairly quiet and we don't go clubbing, but further along people often come back at 2am etc.


To the OP: I find it much easier to work in the library than at home, as do most people I've talked to, so it would make sense for most people to live near Uni, even if there are few lectures. Plus you get lots and lots of books and lovely big desks to work at

Voyager2002

devildog wrote: »

Surely if these kids (sorry students) are as bright as they are supposed to be then they would cope with the courses being condensed down.

I think that you are forgetting that a University is an institute of higher learning, and that a degree represents command of a subject at a pretty high level. In many parts of the world it takes five years or longer to get a degree. If British universities were to offer "degrees" that required less than three years of full-time study, the rest of the world would laugh.

And do remember that lectures and contact-hours represent only a tiny proportion of the time that a student spends learning their subject.