What were you left to live on at uni.

merlin68

Dd has £33 a week after accommodation to live on. So i bought a sainsburies meal ticket and i will put £100 a month on it. I also paid a £300 deposit on halls and need to buy an insurance policy for her gadgets.
But of course she thinks she'll be the only student with no money and was ranting and raving, about not being able to socialize.
I cant afford to give her any more money as i'm on esa.

Stevie_Palimo

Tell her to look for part time work then to supplement her income, Lot's of students do this so she will not be alone and if she refuses then say well tough I am helping as much as I can.

GwylimT

I worked fulltime while I was at university so I was quite well off really, most of my course friends at least worked part time.

After rent my son had about £80 a week, partly from his loan and partly from savings as he worked from 16-18 and saved a lot of money to cover him through his medical degree.

If she wants more money she can get a job in/near her uni town.

jackieblack

There will be a huge number of students in the same boat or worse off than her, most get a part time job to help make ends meet.
She's actually pretty lucky, DD's BF's student loan doesn't even cover his rent.

merlin68

Shes at south bank zone 1, so the rent is nearly £7000 a year. She gets £3323 of student finance and £525 a month of nhs. She reckons she cant work as shes doing a nursing degree.
Need to know from other people as to what they got of parents, if im being unreasonable.

GwylimT

merlin68 wrote: »

Shes at south bank zone 1, so the rent is nearly £7000 a year. She gets £3323 of student finance and £525 a month of nhs. She reckons she cant work as shes doing a nursing degree.
Need to know from other people as to what they got of parents, if im being unreasonable.

My son got a small amount of me, when he left school I made it clear he would need to put in some effort in supportinf himself so he worked before university and saved, he also took a year out of education and worked in a care home and as a health care assistant in our local hospital.

He didn't however have enough to save so I paid his deposit on his second rental house, if he had used his money for this he would have needed regular help for a couple of months, so paying the deposit was easier.

As he had worked hard to support himself if he had suffered a financial problem I would have happily helped him. He also studied medicine like your daughter, he trained to become a doctor and he worked during his degree, he did wait until November so he was settled in to his new routine. He was bank staff at his trust and he would usually do one shift a week as a health care assistant, during his rather short university holidays he could normally work everyday as it was a popular holiday time so lots of staff needed covering. Its good money and experience for a medical student, definitely a role your daughter could undertake.

chella

Your daughter can work NHSP shifts. With these she chooses when she wants to work. It isn't easy studying full time and working but it can be done. She needs to be organised and motivated.


I have no family to fall back on and my motivation was not wanting to eat noodles and beans every day!!


Two 8 hour shifts on the weekends covered me. Your daughter can work like this when she isn't on placement.

Shrimply

My hat goes off to anyone who does a degree and works at the same time. I couldn't have done that. And my universities advice was very much that working, particularly, during honours years was not advisable.

Saying that (I had forgotten), I did work every second weekend at a newsagents, which probably gave me an extra £25 a week. It was for a family member though, so if I had assignments etc I was allowed time off as needed.

My parents didn't give me any money, but they did pay for pretty much my food. Halls are generally more expensive than renting though, but on the upside you usually aren't paying for them during summer.

Honestly, £33 a week doesn't sound like much, but it's doable. I don't know the figures but both me and my sister actually ended up with a decent amount of money in the bank after finishing uni. We are both pretty sensible with money though I guess.

missbiggles1

merlin68 wrote: »

Shes at south bank zone 1, so the rent is nearly £7000 a year. She gets £3323 of student finance and £525 a month of nhs. She reckons she cant work as shes doing a nursing degree.
Need to know from other people as to what they got of parents, if im being unreasonable.

Many nursing students do a couple of shifts a week as HCAs, not just for the money but also to boost their CV so this is what she should do.

With the money you're already giving her she's much better off than someone of the same age on JSA so I should stand firm on this and insist that she manages on what she already has.

I'm sure you'll be more tactful than I would so I wont say exactly what I would say to her!;)

missbiggles1

Shrimply wrote: »

My hat goes off to anyone who does a degree and works at the same time. I couldn't have done that. And my universities advice was very much that working, particularly, during honours years was not advisable.

Saying that (I had forgotten), I did work every second weekend at a newsagents, which probably gave me an extra £25 a week. It was for a family member though, so if I had assignments etc I was allowed time off as needed.

My parents didn't give me any money, but they did pay for pretty much my food. Halls are generally more expensive than renting though, but on the upside you usually aren't paying for them during summer.

Honestly, £33 a week doesn't sound like much, but it's doable. I don't know the figures but both me and my sister actually ended up with a decent amount of money in the bank after finishing uni. We are both pretty sensible with money though I guess.

With what the OP is already giving her she actually has £58pw.

Shrimply

missbiggles1 wrote: »

With what the OP is already giving her she actually has £58pw.

Well that's the figure I got to too. But the original post says £33, so I presumed there are other expenses being taken into account.