Preparing for Uni in 2015 continues...

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New thread

Old one here with loads of info

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/higher_education/2408327-Preparing-for-Uni-in-2015

'So are our children resilient?'

quietly your Xmas sounds ideal
I did send DS with a clothes airer with strict instructions on what he can and can't tumble dry - I didn't write it down though
Glad your DS is getting her printer sorted. DS had his delivered about 3 weeks ago and didn't even take it out of the box before he left so it is comforting to hear that they can sort it remotely if there's a problem, as he's not on the UK mainland! They are having to do part 2 of his software training on-line as they "didn't realise where he would be" even though his Study needs assessment and UCAS forms clearly state his Uni . The training firm said they would have to go back and ask for more money of they need to go out to him for training.

bigbluebus my daughter is in London and still doing part of her online training via Skype!! The training firm are able to invoice £148.50 plus vat per 1/2 day training on my daughters form - her last session was 2hrs but you can bet they invoiced more plus travel expenses!!!!!

• plus she needs a cable as the printer is locked from shared wifi!! So they sending the cable direct to her at their cost!! Sorted!

quietly DS was down for 2x2hr training sessions - can't remember the costings. The 1st session was at home and definitely didn't last 2 hours - more like 1 1/4. Don't suppose the on-line one will be 2 hrs either - if it happens at all, because it was left for DS to organise it. The chap who delivered the computer was costed for 1hr setting up - he was here no more than 20 mins as DS said he would set it up himself - plus there wasn't much point in setting it all up as it wasn't staying here.
They are currently reviewing DSA - think I could pick out where they could make some savings
Hope her cable arrives soon.

bigbluebus my DD got allocated 30 hours specialist teaching support for this year - have a guess at the cost per hour the Uni is allowed to charge?

Glad the printer is sorted Quietly.

DS has used his clothes airer!

I think DS's costing was £65ph (or may have been £85). He has only been allocated 2 hrs mentor support a week. When I saw the cost I told him to tell his Senco from college that she was in the wrong job.
30 hrs a week is going to be a lot - it had better be good quality support at that price.

When DH was dropping DS off last Saturday, DH said a Mum and daughter were walking upstairs in front of them carrying all their worldly goods. The daughter turned around and saw DS carrying his clothes airer and DH heard her say to her DM "That's what we forgot to get". More brownie points to mumsnet me [

Not 30 hours a week!! 30 hours a year - so not even 1 a week!! £79 per hour!!

Oops! sorry quietly my misunderstanding.

No worries bigbluebus she managed her a levels without any support - (was taken away after she received high grades at AS Levels) deemed there were other kids that needed the help more than her!

fucking hell, DD's uni has had 3 rapes this week - police stopping all lasses outside clubs and telling them they need an escort, to travel in packs, or they need to get a cab home.

DD had laughed at me providing a rape alarm - Im so glad I did now, and so is she.

fanny OMFG - where is she? What a worry!!

Oh god fanny

Can we ask what city?

cardiff.

Fanny that's awful.

They could save a lot on DSA by not charging £600 for the initial assessment.
Also by not supplying 6 hours training for a computer program that DS glanced at, said, 'Yep, that looks pretty cool, does it do... ah yes it does, and I bet I can interface it to... yep!'

DS at Cardiff too Fanny.
The news is shocking and upsetting for him as well. I think there has been an arrest today

norks, I had not heard that - DD did say that the copper she spoke with last night said it was all one perp, in their opinion. So if they have arrested someone, thank goodness. DD can keep on using her alarm, either way.

The BBC says TWO arrests actually. :(

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-34347796 news report here.

I am so very grateful to whoever suggested a rape alarm on the mumsnet prep list. Quite horrified actually, but with red tops showing the young female students all falling over eachother drunk, the city is bound to become a magnet for blokes taking a chance...

I have been shocked by the news about the attacks in Cardiff (am in Newport so it's all over my Facebook timeline in the local news). One of dd's friends has gone to Cardiff, have been thinking of her & hoping she is looking after herself.

I am also feeling pretty low, as unlike everyone else in the world (or that's how it feels), I haven't really had any meaningful contact with dd since Sunday. She said we could chat tonight, but I have had no response to my message asking if it was a good time to talk. She hasn't even let me know if her parcel has arrived or not.

Intellectually I know that we are probably the last thing on her mind, that she's probably having too much of a good time to bother with us, and she made it pretty clear when she went that she wouldn't miss us and couldn't wait to get away and start her new life, but I was secretly hoping that a bit of distance would make her appreciate us a bit more and actually want to be in touch. I am surprised how hurt I feel. And I know I need to get a grip - it hasn't even been a week. But doesn't change how I feel.

I look back on when I went to uni - I went to France for the first 2 years. That was in 1988, so no mobiles, internet, social media etc. My parents had no change of communication with me other than writing to me and then waiting for me to deign to call them when I could be bothered to buy a phone card and go to the phone box. It must have been terrible for them, but I really had no notion of this until the last few years, watching other people sending their children to uni, and now, of course, it's really hitting home.