In July George Osborne announced his plans to scrap the current student finance maintenance grants available to students from 2016 and replace them with another...
After studying long and hard through mandatory education, you’re faced with a tough initial choice. Do you continue to study or head off into the world of emp...
A-Levels are drawing to a close and summer is just around the corner. But while University may seem a long way off right now, thinking about your finances befor...
In many ways, I felt like my whole life was a build-up, a slow crescendo to the final resting point of education. If failure had occurred before, future endeavo...
Out of GCSE’s, A-Levels, NVQ’s, City & Guilds, apprenticeships, volunteer work, full-time employment, and university degrees, which would you say is the mos...
In the headlines today came another government proposal from David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s respective parties. “End the £21,000 payment cut off for student loa...
It is a problem that can affect so many people; the cost of travel. For some, it can be something as simple as filling up the car with much needed fuel, or work...
It is a story of which many are familiar with all across the United Kingdom. The NHS is creaking under the pressure. Just today, another headline shows how from...
Wealth does not consist of a great many possessions but of great heart. Money and fame are nothing but the blood of wasted feasts while the pure skies are fille...
This past week has seen a number of questionable decisions and statements made by government officials. Welfare reform minister Lord Freud spoke of how disabled...
We have all probably been there. Our mothers and fathers, and most likely our grandparents and other relatives have told us about "when it was our day" and this...
Let me introduce myself: call me Jack. I’m 22, recent graduate of a Russell Group university with a 2:1 in Modern Languages. I speak German and Spanish fluently...
Well, now is the best time to start thinking about your student finances, according to Salford student accommodation provider Portergate.
Drawing up and stic...
So you have spent the past so many years studying, sweating and most likely if you are anything like me that is, sobbing over your studies, but all your hard wo...
So you’re lying on the floor in the kitchen at 2am. You have lectures in seven hours. The world is spinning. And for some reason there is a traffic cone on your...
Apply, apply, and apply!
Everyone knows how hard the job-market is right now so I won’t go on about that. But the more applications you send, the more likely...
In the wake of the recent iCloud hacking scandal, where hundreds of celebrities had their privacy breached and risqué photos leaked onto the internet, it is no ...
We’ve all been at that point in the year, months after our student loans come in, when our bank accounts have seemed excruciatingly dry. The bills have been pai...
I love to travel. I mean who doesn’t really! You jump on a plane and in next to no time you can feel like you are in a completely different world or even in a c...
There’s a multitude of questions that have to be asked before one procures a flat as a poor student, but for said ‘poor student’, the most important ones tend t...
A think cloud of smoke drifts out of a homemade smoking device and gently creeps its way through the air and wafts over a TV that illuminates a small, stuffy at...
Ahh, student life; the freedom, the fun and lets face it, the dodgy student accommodation! However, braving the peeling paintwork, wonky wallpaper and dusty dec...
So where did you guys meet?
I was in a band with the bass player Nick. That old band ended, but we got a new drummer and started Ninja Baby.
How long...
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his hea...
As my fresher’s year approached its inevitable conclusion I began to realise it was time to return to the real world. The fun was over – for at least a few mont...
I'm so skint right now I may as well dye my hair ginger and call myself a Weasley. Jobs are few and far between and although unemployment rates have dropped, th...
I suspect a lot of students in Britain, and young people in general, don’t know the ins and outs of the British tax system – well, neither do I, to be honest – ...
When I found out that I had an interview for university, one thing that really had me worrying was that I had no idea what the interview would be like. I didn’t...
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The title says it all, below are the best ways to save / make money as a student, enjoy! All of the following things suggested have been trie...
As a well-spoken, neatly dressed Oxford University graduate, it is hard to believe that the Guardian’s former Russian-Correspondent, Luke Harding, was the first...
