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Should more be done to ensure that students can attend university, if their parents are struggling with the cost of living crisis?
National World - LocalTV
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16/08/2023
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Should more be done to ensure students can attend university if parents are struggling
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with the cost of living crisis?
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I've got a vested interest in this, I have to say. My youngest granddaughter is awaiting
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her A-level results and so I've been researching fees. Frankly, earnings are obviously only
00:29
my opinion. It's a scandal.
00:34
Prices have gone up so much and I've got a student loan as well and that's only going
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so far. I know a lot of my English mates get a lot more money so they can pay their rent
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as well but I think the minimum in Scotland is not enough to really pay rent with and
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live with for the month.
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Well that's it, they should concentrate on them because they're the future, aren't they?
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I tell them, "If we had a safer school, you had to learn." So I know they said or something
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like that. Safe in school, we don't do that now. So it's either be good.
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I think it should. It would be nice for everyone to have the opportunity. I'm not saying it
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is for everyone but I think if it is the right thing for the child, the young adult, then
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yeah, maybe it should.
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Yes, let me say yes because it will give us the opportunity for more students to be in
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the universities instead of them to just be roaming around and be dropouts. So I think
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the government should do more in terms of helping those who, their parents, and less
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privilege.
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Parents and children, I have three granddaughters, they've all been to uni. One of them is still
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there. They have to pay big fees to get there, very expensive, and then they have to take
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loans out. I think that's why many children just give up and don't go there. Or parents
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can't afford to send them there. That's where they need more support from the government.
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I mean, yeah, we both struggle because we are English, half English, and have lived
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in England before but technically we can't get student finance because we haven't been
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here three years prior. We live in the EU and Brexit as well so I feel like there could
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be more help with that. Or from universities as well, more funding.
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Yes, I think maintenance loans, I think student fees. I mean, on the continent, I know a few
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years ago students were being encouraged to go, this is pre-Brexit, students were being
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encouraged to go to Maastricht because there were no fees.
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Parents are suffering a lot, students are suffering a lot also. Student finance is not
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sufficient for students and parents' income is not sufficient. So we need a solution and
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I don't know what to do. Government should think better, they should take another step
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so students can continue their studies.
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