Which unis have you applied for Kim?
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Which unis have you applied for Kim?
Ive joined the gym so I can go there or swim just to get some exercise in
I cant wait to go back, cos I just feel trapped! not really buy my parents cos I have my own key but I just feel like I havent got much to do so feel trapped in my house, plus I feel like most of my friends are at uni now
When do you go back Abbie?
My firm and insurance are both at Aston. Declined offers from Southampton, Bournemouth and Portsmouth.
erm well I dont think I start till october but Im going to go back late september- well the last week in september, I wish I could go back earlier but no one will be there
I am very lucky that my parents contribute (and are able/willing to) to the insurance etc side of things, otherwise I'd never be able to afford a car. But yeah public transport is just not worth the money we pay for it. :rolleyes: I live 10 minutes drive from uni so it wont cost me too much in petrol, hopefully. I'm not going to go home as often this year, my sister is home this year doing a masters in London so my mum will have someone to fuss over. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
Abbie I get what you mean! Freshers week starts on the 17th (welcome weekend) soo might go for that, everyone I know at uni will be there for that week so might as well!
The 17th!! I think ours is 25th so that would be the earliest I would go back, plus Im on holiday till the 21st I think
My freshers week starts on the 25th as well.
I also think I might try and get a job this year, I really need to money
I also think I will get a job, probably volunteering, get something on the cv! I have Wednesdays off so that would be ideal. Yeah ours starts early! There's the welcome weekend which has free events, then the week of the 20th is Fresher's week, along with the Fresher's fair etc. I start on the 27th officially.
Currently trying to sort out bills for the house.. fun fun!
What courses have you applied for Kim?
I don'y know when my freshers week starts. Better find out because I'm a welcome week rep!
My firm is Business & Management (AAB) and my insurance is Business & Psychology (ABB.)
Aston has a very good business school, my cousin graduated this year from there with a business degree.
Ooh Aston, I'm there! If you have any questions, feel free to ask! I don't study business, but I can help with general stuff!
This! I've found people on facebook that are on my course and they all seem to come from grammar schools :eek: I come from a comprehensive with specialist status in art that's only had a handful of A's in Business and Economics. Oh dear...Quote:
Originally Posted by Abi
I'm moving on Saturday. I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to fit all my stuff in the car, I'm taking soo much. Just got a cake, some smirn off and archers to share with my flatmates.
Just remember to take the important things Kim. Booze and food. You wont need books or anything. :D Best of luck enjoy Uni life.
Getting thrown out for seshing in your corridor is not a good way to make friends with security.
It is perfectly normal to have to wash up in your en-suite as the kitchen is a tip.
After a night out, be prepared to tackle an obstacle course of people's bins and pointless marketing in your hallway in order to get into your room.
Universities in England will be able to charge tuition fees of up to £9,000 per year, as the government transfers much of the cost of courses from the state to students.
Fees will rise to £6,000 - with an upper tier of £9,000, if universities ensure access for poorer students.
Universities Minister David Willetts said this was a "progressive" reform.
Labour's Gareth Thomas said the fee hike represented a "tragedy for a whole generation of young people".
The National Union of Students dubbed the plan, which will mean almost a threefold increase, "an outrage".
Much of the proposed fee rise, up from the current £3,290 per year, will replace funding cut from universities in last month's Spending Review.
This will mean that many courses, particularly in arts and humanities, will almost entirely depend on income from students' fees.
'Cash transfusion'
"Essentially, it allows universities to replace a large part of the lost state funding for teaching by way of graduate contributions," said Steve Smith, president of the higher education body, Universities UK.
There were divided responses from different types of university.
David Willetts says the tuition fee rise is "a good deal for students"
The proposals were welcomed by the Russell Group of leading universities as "a life-saving cash transfusion" which would be the "only way for the UK to remain a serious global player in higher education".
But the Million+ group of new universities warned the withdrawal of public funding will mean universities will be forced to charge students the maximum £9,000 - and that the proposals are "very unlikely" to provide a "long-term and sustainable basis" for university funding.
"Unless universities charge £9,000 there is a big risk that they will be worse and not better-off because of the swingeing cuts to teaching funding. The fear then must be that the outcome of such high fees will be to damage participation and social mobility," said Million+ chair, Professor Les Ebdon.
Coalition ministers have been trying to achieve a balancing act between a sustainable funding system for universities and a political deal which will head off a Liberal Democrat backbench rebellion.
'Ashamed'
NUS president, Aaron Porter, said Liberal Democrat MPs who were going to ditch their election pledge to vote against any rise in fees should be "ashamed of themselves".
Analysis
Iain Watson, BBC Political Correspondent
What's become clear today is that the government won't simply defend their higher education proposals by pointing to extra help for the least well off - but will also attack Labour for a lack of an alternative.
The opposition chose to denounce cuts to university funding because they can't yet agree on a graduate tax, but they know they will have to spell out soon what they will propose, as well as oppose.
A few Lib Dems used the debate to make it clear they wouldn't support the proposals as they had made a pledge to vote against any increase in fees at the last election.
Even more have indicated privately that they will vote against the measures in December - and not simply abstain, which is allowed as part of the coalition agreement.
So there will be a parliamentary rebellion. But it seems very unlikley that LibDem backbenchers will rebel in sufficient numbers to inflict a defeat on the government.
Opposition leader Ed Miliband accused the coalition of breaking promises over tuition fees - but Prime Minister David Cameron said that such challenges from Labour showed that "opportunism has overtaken principle".
Mr Willetts, presenting the plans to the House of Commons, confirmed that universities charging the highest fees will have to show support for widening access to students from economically poorer backgrounds.
This would mean the type of outreach programmes that many universities already carry out, such as summer schools and targeted scholarships.
This would not mean quotas of students from poor homes, but Mr Willetts promised a "tougher regime" of sanctions if universities made insufficient efforts to attract poorer students.
Interest rates on student loans will make repayments more expensive for higher-paid graduates, in what the government describes as a system with a "progressive taper".
Mr Willetts said graduates earning less than £21,000 per year would not pay any real interest on loans, but rates would rise to inflation plus 3% at £41,000 per year and above.
'Dark days'
Speaking ahead of the announcement, the Liberal Democrats' youth group rejected the proposals.
Aaron Porter of the NUS called the proposals an "outrage"
"The current burden of debt is already weighing heavily on many students, and putting many others off going to university altogether," said Liberal Youth chairman Martin Shapland.
Labour's university spokesman, Gareth Thomas, warned that "students will be forced to choose the cheapest courses, not the one that suits them best".
The University of Leicester has carried out research into how fees will change demand for places - and its initial response to the current plans is that high fees will particularly hit demand for places at less prestigious universities.
Vice-Chancellor Sir Bob Burgess said this would create a market with different levels of fees between institutions, but there was no evidence to suggest that higher fees would lead to a "collapse in participation".
England, Wales, Northern Ireland: Max £3,290 pa Scotland: Free to Scottish and EU students, £1,820 pa to other UK (£2,895 for medicine) Students from elsewhere in the EU pay the same as those locally Students from outside the EU pay whatever the university charges Tuition fees: Across the UK Send us your comments There have been warnings about a two-tier system emerging from the split level of fees.
David Barclay, president of Oxford University Student Union, says: "A two-cap system will mean a two-tier system returning us to the dark days of some universities for the many and some universities for the few."
Mr Barclay has been invited to meet Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg on Wednesday, as the coalition tries to sell the funding package.
The changes in tuition fees will apply to universities in England. Scottish students studying in Scotland do not have to pay any fees. In Northern Ireland and Wales, fees are currently charged up to a maximum of £3,290.
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its absolutley disgusting! so much for education for all. The Lib Dems are going against everyting they have ever said, i will never vote for them again, and i have written to my mp stating this.
This. Like you, Lib Dem never again.
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Originally Posted by Katy
This. Like you, Lib Dem never again.
My Mp is no longer Lib Dem but Conservative...
But who would I vote for if not for Lib dems.. don't like Tories. or Labour. **** it I'm voting Monster Raving Looney Party. Who's with me? :lol:
haha, thats so true stars! this condem government is getting more and more ridiculas, first child benefit, then this.
For starters they should sit in a few university lectures and see what they are really like, i for one know where i went, they were not worth 3 grand never mind 9.
Someone said to me the other day that it's just like a really expensive library membership - couldn't agree more right now! (although tbf I don't have to pay this year, yet I still get support from the uni and they come and visit us, presumably using our previous tuition fees)Quote:
Originally Posted by Katy
Agreed. My friend's already dropped out because she doesn't think the tuition is worth 3k a year. Economics lecturer was saying that it only affects people that are starting their A Levels now. I don't know what to believe about this any more. I for one wouldn't pay 9k a year, it's expensive enough as it is with accommodation on top.
Tori I thought we had to pay about £800 and something in placement year? Or is that just the business school?
I'm not sure because I know some people doing IBML and they are having to pay something, but LSS aren't... I would look into it though, as I really can't be sure. Would be odd if it wasn't uniform though! Although it could be because I'm abroad, but if you stay in the UK you have to pay as you (and the uni) don't get Erasmus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim
Who was it that said that no accoommodation was complete without a traffic cone...
That is my door but I didn't put it there! Nearly walked straight into it when I went to go to my tutorial.
It's still here... instead of threatening to fine people for the kitchen not being spotless when the cleaner comes I think they should start charging it rent :lol:
Ooh is that the new build?
Have you heard about Rasheeda in Stafford Tower? The cleaner can't be as bad as her!
Yeah it is. I'll put a picture of my room up when I've tidied it up a bit. I heard a bit, knocking on people's doors at like 9:30am because the kitchen wasn't spotless or something? Our cleaner comes at about lunch time so we haven't had any such wake up calls. Our usual one is the head of the cleaners and refused to clean the entire kitchen once because my flatmate accidentally dropped his coco pops on the floor when she was there. The cleaner came to do the bathrooms the other week (that's done once a month) and when I wasn't in my room, took everything out of my bathroom and just dumped it anywhere. On the same day, she cleaned the middle three and skipped the other four.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tori
Your accommodation looks really like mine last year! (At UWE) We didn't have cleaners though. :( :p
Lecturers are striking next Thursday, day off!
ETA:
I really dislike one of my lecturers right now. He set an essay where we can only use animals from the local zoo collection. How many desert animals do they have? Seven. And its like random lizards that there's little information on, no sidewinding snakes or camels etc. Its so frustrating because there's so many examples I can think of but the zoo doesn't have them! I've used five animals so far for 1,500 words. 500 more to go. This essay is like pulling teeth.
Communal fines suck, especially when you haven't used the shelf you're getting fined for since the week you moved in because people were stealing your stuff. When you've had your post stolen you're really not in the mood to pay for damage caused by someone else.
See the residence tutor and explain - when Rasheeda tried to fine us all, I told Rasheeda that it wasn't my problem and she was fine about it, and I didn't have to pay. I'd give it a try with your residence tutor (nadine, maybe?)
I'll give it a try after my lecture tomorrow then. If you can get Rasheeda not to fine you there must be hope for us all. I heard the notice being stuck up at around 1, it said 24 hours and I finish at 11 so I should be ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tori
Yeah... well she liked me because I always came out when she started screaming the place down... and it was never me that had left the place untidy. They can be fair, if you present yourself calmly! Good luck!
Residence departments aren't known for their efficiency. Don't be at all surprised if someone lets themselves into your room while trying to show someone a vacant room.
I still cant believe I only have one more year left. I feel like i should be doing some kind of uni work over the summer or something. I swear sometimes i feel ill that I only have one last year
Abbie stop it your making me feel old. I can remember when you, Davie, Abigail, Stars and co were all talking about being worried about going to Uni. Now us adopted foster parents have to go through it all again as we watch with pride following you all into the big bad world.
Three years to go for me as my course has a placement year. I feel old because I'm not at school any more.
The business department are so slow with results; from what I've heard all other first years have theirs already.
I cant believe I've finished Uni,this is crazy! Now I feel really old reading old posts
Congratulations and all the best in your chosen career :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Abbie
Placement years are much better than Uni.