My student daughter cannot get a student account!

susan42

edgey - thank you for your replies about CB and CTC

As regard the kitchen aspect, i was putting out a feeler as to the cost of meals at leeds met as its all abit vague on the website. Currently the college my son goes to charges shop prices for a drink. £1.70 for a coke...wondered if uni cafes were the same or they had some discounts. I have already told him to buy his drinks elsewhere.


Thank you anyhow

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susan42 wrote: »

edgey - thank you for your replies about CB and CTC

As regard the kitchen aspect, i was putting out a feeler as to the cost of meals at leeds met as its all abit vague on the website. Currently the college my son goes to charges shop prices for a drink. £1.70 for a coke...wondered if uni cafes were the same or they had some discounts. I have already told him to buy his drinks elsewhere.


Thank you anyhow

If it helps my Uni charge ~£1 for breakfast and ~£2-3 for other meals depending on what you get.
Cheap if you compare it to Wetherspoons, expensive compared to cooking your own I guess.

Drinks are about retail price or slightly cheaper.
Our vending machine is a bit of a rip off though. I should get on setting up a stall on friday nights...

Leeds Met could be completely different though. I pretty much live on tuna, fresh veg and pasta and get a nice cut of meat every now and then to cut down on costs.

maddocks_2

We've already had examples for brum and manchester so I thought I'd do the southern area...
Reading http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/accommodation/Hall_Fees_sheet_10to11.pdf
Notice the cheapest option is Sibly hall at 3663/year (30 weeks). There's also an oversubscription to all halls which means you may get allocated to a more expensive hall and be told "tough", which is what happened to me (Martindale).

Bristol
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/accommodation/ug/guide/residences/fees.html
You're looking at shared rooms to get under 3k/year - which isn't a problem, of course but then there's the higher competition for those types of rooms

Southampton
http://www.soton.ac.uk/accommodation/docs/1011%20accommodation_guide.pdf (last page)
Again, under 3k/year is hard to find: the self catered halls tend not to allow 30 week lets.

I was trying to in my original post explain that the trend is now to move away from university subsidised accommodation and towards private halls - universities can't afford to keep buildings up to date when budgets are down, so they shut down halls. I saw 2 halls shut down at my uni while I was there, and new halls built, all were en-suite only and £lol.

It's certainly *possible* to live on 6k/year - in fact, I didn't even get that as I was pre-3k fees so I got about 4k loan and 1k grant. I'm just saying that it's no longer as easy as it was as universities (except for the precious few - oxbridge still subsidise their accommodation in some halls) are cutting their budgets in this area and letting the private sector in.

I was placed in self catering halls on a 39 week let based on my age = ie they thought they were doing me a favour placing me in quiet halls designed for mature students. I did not have an en-suite - but I did have a sink. That upped the price.