Student life and avoiding graduate loan debts
As a student, money is always a difficult subject. Currently the average student leaves college with over £13,000 in debt. With the introduction in the autumn of top-up fees, students in England and Wales will be charged £3,000 a year which is more than double what most pay now, things will only get worse. Today’s student needs to study hard, to stand any chance of getting one of the dwindling number of highly competitive graduate jobs that still exist. Students also need to save what little money they have, and be extremely financially aware, if they are not going to experience lifelong crippling levels of personal debt after they graduate.Standard student jobs such as stacking shelves in supermarkets, becoming a part-time retail sales assistant, bar work, call centre representative, data input operator, or working for the students union, are all useful tools to keep the funds coming in, but it seems that sometimes it is not always enough. A quick search on the internet can bring up a host of additional ways to supplement a flagging income. Barclays Bank ( http://www.personal.barclays.co.uk/BRC1/jsp/brccontrol?task=articleFWgroup
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Richard lives in Edinburgh, occasionally writing for the personal finance blog Cashzilla ( http://cashzilla.blogspot.com/ ), and talks to himself a lot, although he is yet to find any intelligent conversation.
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