Wimbledon College of Art interview - help

Tabbytabitha

silvercar wrote: »

My understanding of the Scottish system is that you still have loans for maintenance. That will require paying back.

You're quite correct, although there is a bursary as well. On the other hand, the total of these is just over £7k which is £4k less than a UK student would get for living in London which seems to me to make the situation totally unviable.

silvercar

chesky wrote: »

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Tabbytabitha wrote: »

That was never the case when I was in the sixth form, even though 21 was the age of majority then. It seems to be another example of wrapping young people in cotton wool these days.

It is more that students need financial help from their parents these days, as the grants/ loans aren't sufficient in most cases and the government expects parents to top up. So if you expect parental financial input you should involve them in the process.
It is also a generational trend that parents are more involved in their offspring's education than they were years ago.

UKTigerlily

zagubov wrote: »

Instead of travelling from Reading, she might be better staying in hotel. If she gets an Oyster card, there's a Premier Inn at Kingston 12 minutes by train from Wimbledon. Might be less stressful.

If she flies to Heathrow, the direct bus to Kingston (the X26) is £1.50 in Oyster credit.

I'd be concerned if a relative with MH issues went to live and study a distant city with no friends.

It's good you'd be concerned, but is sometimes for the best . . . I live 150 miles from my Mum & Stepdad & about 157 miles from my Brother (he's about the same distance from them as I am) & I very much prefer it & would hate for them to be closer (& I have 2 serious mh problems)

Not the same for everyone, but sometimes it's the best thing you can do

Tabbytabitha

silvercar wrote: »

chesky wrote: »

I!!!8217;m a perfectly good typist, so can someone explain what is going on with predictive text on this board.[It is being looked at.



It is more that students need financial help from their parents these days, as the grants/ loans aren't sufficient in most cases and the government expects parents to top up. So if you expect parental financial input you should involve them in the process.
It is also a generational trend that parents are more involved in their offspring's education than they were years ago.

Grants were also means tested on parental income and parents needed to top them up in those days as well. In fact, they were more stringently means tested than they are now and even low paid parents often needed to contribute. Nowadays, I would receive full funding based on my parents' income whereas they had to take out a loan to top up my grant when I first went to university.

Gloomendoom

silvercar wrote: »

Given the support ( financial and emotional) that students need from their parents, I would have thought that a parent would be very involved with their offspring's applications.

Most students would be 17 or 18 on and living at home, so I would have thought the school would be holding parent information evenings and discussing choices with parent and pupil. At the very least emailing parents that pupils were making choices, so the parent could choose to discuss with their offspring.

The school must be very aware that pupils will struggle without some measure of financial support, so it seems sensible that they warn the parents at least.

I went to art school and I was 18 the day I started my foundation course and the youngest there. There was no contact with my parents at all.

I now work for a university and have been asked by parents at open days how they will be kept informed of their offspring's progress, or lack of it. The simple answer is that they won't. We don't contact parents on any matter without the student's permission or a dire emergency.

They are adults, not children.

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And as a consequence my son is leaving university. The university won't deal with me so there is absolutely nothing I can do. I could have done something with the support services if I'd been allowed to intercede with them (because he sometimes needs prompting to say what he thinks). I'm not.

Young people with issues don't cease to need their carers once they go to university. They still have the issues.

System

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I went to art school and I was 18 the day I started my foundation course and the youngest there. There was no contact with my parents at all.

I now work for a university and have been asked by parents at open days how they will be kept informed of their offspring's progress, or lack of it. The simple answer is that they won't. We don't contact parents on any matter without the student's permission or a dire emergency.

They are adults, not children.

Yep - it's like going to the bank and saying, I'd like to see the account activity because although my son/daughter is 18, they're rubbish with money and I need to intervene.

Tabbytabitha

andydownes123 wrote: »

Yep - it's like going to the bank and saying, I'd like to see the account activity because although my son/daughter is 18, they're rubbish with money and I need to intervene.

You'd be surprised at the number of parents who complete the funding application despite the fact that the student's taking out the loan.

silvercar

andydownes123 wrote: »

Yep - it's like going to the bank and saying, I'd like to see the account activity because although my son/daughter is 18, they're rubbish with money and I need to intervene.

Don't all parents have third party authority on their offspring's bank accounts?;)

lincroft1710

silvercar wrote: »

Don't all parents have third party authority on their offspring's bank accounts?;)

If the offspring is over 18 then in law they are an adult. The only time a parent could be involved is if they were a guarantor.