how to afford a masters degree?????

Gleeful

stuckinmyflat wrote: »

glee: how so ?

In my parents day, they lived away from home. Ten years ago, students lived away from home. If anything, with the rise of poly's becoming Universities, more students now live at home than ever before because there is invariably a university in their nearest town these days.

With regards to your second comment, do you not think that students nowadays face the same problems as they used to? Illness and emotional problems happened to people back then too. With regards to funding, students of today are better off than they ever were!

southoftheriver

Gleeful wrote: »

With regards to your second comment, do you not think that students nowadays face the same problems as they used to? Illness and emotional problems happened to people back then too. With regards to funding, students of today are better off than they ever were!

Even compared to those who had all of their fees paid and got grants?

Gleeful

southoftheriver wrote: »

Even compared to those who had all of their fees paid and got grants?

Yeah, grants weren't as much as current student loans are. Am I right? Most students these days can afford to shop in Topshop and waste their loans on rubbish. I don't remember this being the case for my parents.

lynzpower

Gleeful wrote: »

Yeah, grants weren't as much as current student loans are. Am I right? Most students these days can afford to shop in Topshop and waste their loans on rubbish. I don't remember this being the case for my parents.

But were living costs as high then?

Im looking at rents in london for example and its 80 quid to SHARE A ROOM, alone you are looking at 100pw MINIMUM and thats excluding bills.

Im sure rent prices were nowhere near as high then as they are now?

stuckinmyflat

not everyone wastes their loan on rubbish, £400 a month doesnt really go that far. Once ive paid my mortgage, bills, and groceries its pretty much gone.

Oldernotwiser

southoftheriver wrote: »

Even compared to those who had all of their fees paid and got grants?

Not everybody got grants; they were assessed on parental income, rather less generously than loans and grants are today.

Oldernotwiser

lynzpower wrote: »

But were living costs as high then?

Im looking at rents in london for example and its 80 quid to SHARE A ROOM, alone you are looking at 100pw MINIMUM and thats excluding bills.

Im sure rent prices were nowhere near as high then as they are now?

Given inflation, it would be very difficult to compare costs but when my generation left school it was common for rooms in halls of residence to be shared and en suite rooms were unheard of.

Oldernotwiser

stuckinmyflat wrote: »

not everyone wastes their loan on rubbish, £400 a month doesnt really go that far. Once ive paid my mortgage, bills, and groceries its pretty much gone.

Student funding isn't intended to pay for things like mortgages!

lynzpower

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Given inflation, it would be very difficult to compare costs but when my generation left school it was common for rooms in halls of residence to be shared and en suite rooms were unheard of.

Yeah, your probably right. I dunno, maybe I just feeling very woe is me about living costs but then I guess I could have got a place somewhere else to do it cheaper but Its the price you pay for world class academia so Ill have to swallow the costs. *rolls eyes*

Beans on toast is expensive though now bread prices have gone up so :eek:

stuckinmyflat

you know what older you are pathetic no matter what i say its wrong, you may be older but you certainly are not wiser, in fact im sick of reading your crap. You tell me where the problem is, instead of paying rent i pay a mortgage, which is around the same ??????????????????