Mature student funding help?

Fluff15

englishrose19 - you'd also do well to remember this is a forum, not an assessment at university. Poor grammar and spelling can be forgiven here, we're not getting marked on it. Your comment was spiteful and unnecessary.

Fluff15

And OP, if you have the loans and bursaries already you needn't worry. These should cover most of your expenses, plenty of students get by on these without a job. As long as you budget well, you won't be living off pasta and noodles!

Wales is much cheaper than London, so you will find your living costs will go down anyway. Plus, there should be plenty of part time/casual work going in a student city, if you don't mind waiting on tables or bar work. Shops and supermarkets are also good places to try, or even your university.

Student housing usually ends at the very end of the academic year, and move in dates for private second/third year lettings start as soon as the halls' letting ends. Many employers take their part time staff on for full time hours over the summer, so you might not ever need to go home again!

englishrose19

Fluff15 wrote: »

englishrose19 - you'd also do well to remember this is a forum, not an assessment at university. Poor grammar and spelling can be forgiven here, we're not getting marked on it. Your comment was spiteful and unnecessary.

I don't think so. A university student needs to be able to spell, some of the spelling in the OP are clearly not typos.

I wasn't trying to be rude but there is no point in going to uni if you can't spell, you will get a bad degree, I've seen it happen many times over.

Fluff15

You are rude, and petty. You clearly have nothing better to do, stop trolling on somebody who was asking for some advice and encouragement for the next big step in their life.

Delta-NC

englishrose19 wrote: »

I wasn't trying to be rude but there is no point in going to uni if you can't spell, you will get a bad degree

Voyager2002

englishrose19 wrote: »

I don't think so. A university student needs to be able to spell, some of the spelling in the OP are clearly not typos.

I wasn't trying to be rude but there is no point in going to uni if you can't spell, you will get a bad degree, I've seen it happen many times over.

I remember one of my students who explained that she was dyslexic. Since the actual content of her essays was good, I ignored her spelling and gave her the marks that she deserved. She graduated with an excellent degree.

GoldenShadow

englishrose19 wrote: »

I don't think so. A university student needs to be able to spell, some of the spelling in the OP are clearly not typos.

I wasn't trying to be rude but there is no point in going to uni if you can't spell, you will get a bad degree, I've seen it happen many times over.

Lets be perfectly honest here. I think people are likely to proof read university level work several times over, but posts on here?

Yeah, exactly. Better ways to target our energy

Dunroamin

GoldenShadow wrote: »

Lets be perfectly honest here. I think people are likely to proof read university level work several times over, but posts on here?

Yeah, exactly. Better ways to target our energy

If even graduates can't write decent English without needing to proof read, I really wonder why we bother with educating people.

GoldenShadow

Dunroamin wrote: »

If even graduates can't write decent English without needing to proof read, I really wonder why we bother with educating people.

I find it quite concerning that written grammar on an internet forum needs to be nitpicked upon so much.

I have to proof read everything I write all the time else it can be abysmal, but that doesn't make me any less of a person than anybody else. Its not as though we're discussing text speak which is genuinely quite hard to read, but small slip ups where people's minds have wandered elsewhere mid sentence, or where they are using a word in the wrong context.

The fact I have always been a straight A student heading for a 1st in my degree means nothing, because I need to proof read what I write or else fall foul of the likes of the grammar Nazis?! I will inform all those involved in my education that they have wasted their time, because I still need to proof read :rotfl:

ETA: I think you also have a rather worryingly high opinion of what a graduate is. There are plenty of people who attend university because they have nothing else to do with their life and want *free* money. But heck, if they can spell properly, who cares if they don't even excel in their sphere (which the taxpayer swallows when they fail to pay it off by age 50)

Voyager2002

GoldenShadow wrote: »

I find it quite concerning that written grammar on an internet forum needs to be nitpicked upon so much.

I have to proof read everything I write all the time else it can be abysmal, but that doesn't make me any less of a person than anybody else. Its not as though we're discussing text speak which is genuinely quite hard to read, but small slip ups where people's minds have wandered elsewhere mid sentence, or where they are using a word in the wrong context.

The fact I have always been a straight A student heading for a 1st in my degree means nothing, because I need to proof read what I write or else fall foul of the likes of the grammar Nazis?! I will inform all those involved in my education that they have wasted their time, because I still need to proof read :rotfl:

ETA: I think you also have a rather worryingly high opinion of what a graduate is. There are plenty of people who attend university because they have nothing else to do with their life and want *free* money. But heck, if they can spell properly, who cares if they don't even excel in their sphere (which the taxpayer swallows when they fail to pay it off by age 50)

The above could not have been written by a student performing at first class standard, at least not at a "real" university.