Go on shock me... how much are your DC's Hall of Residence fees per term (where? catered/self catering?)

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Just that!

As with all things, what is best for our 18 years depends on circumstances. The landscape here in rural wales is peppered with youngsters who have no concept of the wide and diverse opportunities available to them if they study at a uni close to home they may still not have their horizons broadened.
18 year olds raised in london will already know more of what the world can offer.

Oly5
ok for the 45% who are academically qualified to go to university, what about the rest?

About £125 per week last year (first year of uni), non catered ensuite. We had to top up by about £400 every time the payment was due.

House share this year £72 per week plus bills although we have been paying the rent because the maintenance loan isn't due until about 12th Sept and they took possession of the house on the 2nd July.

£5649 for the year (£135 per week) includes £50 per week meal plan catering - Birmingham.

£5080 for 42 weeks, for a slightly larger than normal self-catered ensuite. Sheffield.

Bristol, catered hall, £6964 per year. Single room, no basin.

Student Hall porn

Kings Cross FROM £339.00 pw

Bankside FROM £315pw

They want to build student housing opposite me. I went to the exhibition, where the developers was talking about the need to provide decent accomodation etc. I think that student accomodation escapes the Community Infrastructure Levy or affordable housing requirement imposed on most residential developers. I suggested that this accomodation would be expensive, out of reach of most home students and that it was therefore doing nothing to help meet a general student need. The developer did admit that some Councils had worked this out, and imposed a requirement that a proportion should be available at lower cost to less well off students. But not my Council.

£3,900 for a room in a shared house. Bangor.

Hey Bluesky, we both have kids off to bristol.

£95/week, self catering, russell group northern uni

Bristol £6400 self catered ensuite £5438 same set up at Loughborough. Expensive year!

Same as Lilaclily - Kent Uni

6K S/C en suite Exeter

Student accommodation does seem to have risen massively over the past couple of decades

Accounting for inflation I was paying around 3,500 a year (52 weeks) for self catering

Fees have been in place for 18 years! No idea how it worked prior.

Single loan was available to cover fees and living costs.

Dd is paying just under £5000 for 39 weeks in sc hall en suite room. It's right in the middle of campus and I thought it was pretty nice really. I paid around £1000 for thirty weeks twenty years ago and I had to move my stuff out for every holiday!

Cost of accommodation was paid from your grant, I seem to remember.

I think accommodation costs are rising because a) there are more students b) they have higher expectations about the standard of that accommodation and c) landlords know that parents will, basically, have to cough up.

My DS is about to start at Liverpool, SC, Ensuite, on campus, just over 5100 from Sept to June.

Loan wont cover it all so bank of mum and dad paying the extra plus some living costs (he also keen to get a job and will use some of savings from the retail job he has just finished)

£11, 985 for the year, central London. self catering.

Bloody lovely it is!

£7.8k catered single room en suite Bristol.

£5300 for a 40 week contract in a self catered, en-suite room in halls. Outside of, but near London. 20 minute walk to campus, free bus on the doorstep.

To answer the question about sending our kids off to uni to get into debt, etc; they are adults, making their own decisions. DS chose the best uni for his chosen course and we had no say in the matter. I do think, selfishly, if it was up to me, I'd have kept him closer, but it's not.

Just over 4.5k pa catered (50% discount on food bought) just outside London , 30 weeks.

SwedishEdith I think you're right about the higher expectations nowadays - en suite rooms were unheard of at my red brick in the 1980s. I think it prepared you for the grotty private accommodation in 2nd and 3rd year (I remember rent being about a tenner a week, all mice and slugs were freebies).

This year - £5.3k for a Scottish uni, en-suite SC but it's a pretty new facility. Single room in catered halls start at £6.2k, single SC rooms start at £3.5k.

Ifailed I hate to break it to you (I am not a snob about unis) but all uni's are not equal why pay £9000 a year to study at a bottom place university when for a bit of extra debt you can actully go to a decent university that would actually increase there life prospects.

Degrees are NOT like A levels / GCSEs that are all the same standard etc a degree from Oxford or Cambridge is worth more than one from UCLAN or De monfort university.

York £8.1k ensuite, even up north it isnt cheap