Students don’t have a lot of spare cash to throw around. When the student loan comes in and rent goes out, most students – myself included – are left with very little to play with for the next three months of their lives. Uni has taught me a totally different way of handling money....
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I’m just a small town girl (living in a lonely world), so when I decided to go to university, I opted for a city, and my city of choice was Liverpool. I didn’t really know a lot about Liverpool when I went there. I hadn’t really seen much of it. I was naïve to...
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When Susan Boyle appeared on our TV screens, just those few weeks ago, everyone was confused by the fantastic voice that came from the mouth of that bizarre, eccentric and unusual woman. It was TV gold to say the least. Simon Cowell’s face when she began to sing was the epitome of what Britain’s...
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I am 20 years old and I have just completed my second year of university. Since the start of my educational career I have sat three lots of SAT’s exams, 12 GCSE’s, four AS Levels, three A Levels, three first year University exams, two second year university exams and I am in the process...
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When a university student leaves education, most will have thousands of pounds worth of debt. Tuition fee loans and maintenance loans all add up to a pretty hefty sum of money. We will all, or the majority of us at least, be sent out into the world with a massive debt on our shoulders...
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Young people are so often penalized simply for being young. Why not the same for old people, asks Alice-May Purkiss
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So. On Sunday night, as everyone knows, it snowed. And it snowed quite a lot in some places. Some said that it was the worst snow in this country for 6 years, others said it was the worst for 18 years. All I know is that it was the most snow that I had...
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It’s a well known fact: there is nothing nicer than a greasy takeaway after a night out on the tiles, drinking fizzy pop. At home, finding a good pizza shop within a three minute walk of where you are is as easy as ABC. There is, after all, only one club, and all the...
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University is a funny beast. I always thought that I would go to university as it is now the ‘done thing,’ but I never really thought a lot about what I wanted to study, where I wanted to study, or even, perhaps most importantly, if I actually wanted to go to university at all....
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