Page 1 of Students eh?

Anyone who ever thought students had no shame and brassnecks the size of london will be pleased to have all their opinions confirmed http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1324268,00.html

Woulda done it myself but no one would want to look at my boobs.......

The words `get a job` spring to mind.

I think it is shocking that students are having to take part in wet t-shirt competitions and live on beans just to survive considering they also have studies to tackle. It is a shoddy state of affairs when young people have to start life by scrimping, saving and getting thousands of pounds in debt to get a qualification and add to society. It wasn`t so many years ago that students were paid to gain qualifications as they were (and are) going to pay back society by paying higher taxes and undertake jobs which benefit society as a whole.

I think its a shame they have to start what could be a serious story with all that rubbish about wet tee shirts.

It`s probably best to `page down` as soon as the page loads up and start reading at Quote:
Some students at the university have found themselves in a slightly more dire situation and up to 100 have approached the student union for help with food and basic necessities.

Where are the pictures?
Why doesn`t this happen at my university?

*sob*



"The vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world...
and we will find these people, and we will bring them to justice" - George W. Bush

Sorry to sound unsympathetic, but why doesn`t the Government make the minimum age for undergraduates 21, and get them some experience of working for a living and thus earning some money - should make students appreciate their learning experience more (see mature students) and maybe tame their practice of making loads of noise at night when honest hard-working folks like thee and me have to be up the next day...

As a retired mature student myself, I fully appreciated my time at university but couldn`t make my younger fellow students understand why...


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Cambridge No problems so far.

F***ing toffs.

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F***ing toffs.

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Nothing like jumping to a conclusion, is there? >:(

Despite what people seem to think, Oxbridge is NOT full of Hoorah Henrys and spoilt brats born with silver spoons in their mouths. The vast majority of people have worked very hard to get there and aren`t remotely "toffish" at all.

I went to Oxford from 1990 to 1993. I had no connection with the place through family and hadn`t even thought about applying until it was suggested to me when in sixth form at the local authority grammar school I attended. I came from a working class family and was the first generation to go into tertiary education. I sat the Oxford entrance exam andn was accepted to read law. To be quite honest, there was no-one more surprised than me when they said yes.....

Of course, like anywhere in life, you meet a few knobs. But most people were very down to earth and nothing at all like the Brideshead Revisited stereotype which still (completely erroneously) persists.

It REALLY irritates me when people who don`t have the first idea what they are talking about immediately label anyone who went to Oxford or Cambridge as a "toff" or something equally asinine.

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(Not having a go at you personally, bigfan - it just happened to be your comment that got me in the mood to don my ranting hat :D :p

This story is old hat! There was a piece in the news over 2 years ago about girls that were having to become prostitutes and sex line hosts to pay their course fees (or was it to pay for all the alcohol that students consume!?) Ohhhh controversial!! IMHO the students that are living on the breadline should maybe try thinking about getting a part time job. I did my course part time alongside looking after my daughter and working, it`s hard but can be done. Although I was a `mature` student and had a bit of common sense, which younger students seem to lack.

In response to Mark Turner;
Firstly, I think you may have been to a different Oxford! No toffs? are you kidding :p I can`t understand how you can say that the students are not toffs at Oxford and Cambridge. I have known a few people that have studied at Oxford (and Cambridge) over the years and none of them were working class! In case you doubt my knowledge on the subject as you did with the previous poster, I now work for a guardianship agency that looks after foreign students studying at Independent schools - so I know all about public school mentality (from the students AND the schools!) and it goes right through to university level with Cambridge/Oxford at the peek of that mentality.

Also, wasn`t in the news just last week that Oxford have asked the Government to stop insisting that they take a certain percentage of students from `underprivileged` backgrounds!? I rest my case.

You may not be a toff, fair enough, but the vast majority of students that get to Oxford and Cambridge are NOT from real working class families and never will be. Not that it makes any difference these days as most students seem to want to study things like `Football Hooliganism` `Media Studies` `Goat Herding` etc and Oxford and Cambridge don`t do stuff like that do they? :D

Mel