If you went to uni in the 90s how much grant did you get ?

[Kittencuddler]

Just curious how it compares

1990-1993.
No grant due to parental income (police sergeant and school teacher).
My parents gave me £1k per term.
I worked full time in the summer holidays and 2nd year Easter.

1990-1993. Not quite a full grant, I got £800 per term and my rent was £400. In my third year loans were introduced and I borrowed around £1000.

95 to 98, £1700 for the first two years, £1200 in the third as it wasn't supposed to cover summer. My parents topped up £50 per week as I wasn't allowed to work in term time, i did in the holidays. The also paid my rent but that was about 40 per week.....

Who didn’t allow you to work the uni or your parents ?

I seem to remember 770 per term.

Guess the 80s was the best time to go then

Although I suppose it was so much harder then to go to uni

Same as above 91-94, no grant due to parents' income but fairly small student loans available to all. Also not allowed to work in term time (Cambridge).

800 per term

1998, no grant it was loans by then.

The university, you could work the odd college bar shift or formal hall, but not externally. And with the workload no one did.

Degree 1995-1999 was 4 years and grant was term1 990, term 2 (included travel expenses) 1300, term 3 750 -,loan option from 2nd year and it went up each year.
I went to college for two years before 93-95 and got much the same grant but no loan. Both were away from home rate and my mum
paid nothing

94-97 which were the years the government decided to cut the grant by 10% each year. I got the full grant, I think I had £700 a term the first year. I think that because I remember my rent in halls was £35 and I had same to live off (which was okay that year).
Lived at home in holidays, halls was term time only, went back in the third year for cost reason.

I had one of the first student loans, as second year had to live in a house all year, and because I wanted to do more than study and eat and have the odd £2 pint of Guinness. Came out with £3k debt. Which is apparently £7650 today.

‘98. Weirdly I got £800 for my first year, but had the £1000 fees.

93-96 about a grand a term and a loan, no parental support.

In the late 60s, my dad saved enough from his 3rd year grant to buy a motorbike.

He moaned about my lot and is horrified at what his grandkids face.

I was in an outer London uni 94-97.

Full grant and £250 a month from my dad which paid for my expensive accommodation and £7 a day for food/drink/travel/entertainment/field trip/everything else. I didn't take the loan.

My DD is currently paying £229 a week for a grittier room/flat than I had, full loan and tuition fees will leave her £60k+ in debt when she graduates.

I seem to remember hall of resisdence at a large midlands uni was about £500 a term (10 weeks) which included accommodation and all meals but with shared bathrooms and toilets.

Rent out in town in a shared house was about £25-£30 a week which was rent only and no bills or food. Bog standard beer like Fosters in the student bar was 70p a pint.

This was early 90s.

I got a grant in '98. £800 for the year as I had an older sibling also at University. My sibling got more than I did, which rankled, and is why I remember it!

Late 80s the grant was a maximum of just under 2k a year. Housing was cheap, although not a good standard. I recieved some sort of housing rebate in the second year too, but not the third.

I remember my lectures reminiscing about how good they had it in the 70s.

1992-1995. I seem to remember my grant was 800 a term. Possibly less for the third term as shorter. Student loans sat alongside grants and I borrowed 2000 in total.

I got a big grant as parents didn’t earn much. In my second and third years I worked in a shop all term time (two evenings and a Saturday or Sunday shift).

No tuition fees then, of course.

94-97. Didn’t get a grant at all. Fees were paid. My parents gave me 1k a term. Rent was £25.50 a week.

1988 - 1991
No grant due to parental income but parents gave me £1000 per term (the equivalent to the grant) and I stayed with them during the holidays and worked all Christmases and summers.
£100 a week was plenty for accommodation (£35 - £45), food and moderate socialising. Christmas and summer work gave me the extra money for gigs, records and more booze.

I went at the end of the 90s and we just had loans (though I did get a small Erasmus grant when studying abroad which was meant to compensate for the difference in cost of living). But you could, if careful, manage to live on the maintenance loan plus income from working in the summer holidays.

96 - 99. I got a full grant, can't remember how much it was but I seem to remember it covered my (London) hall fees and then my parents topped me up by about £200 a month.