‘I can’t even imagine’: Londoners on how students cope with finances?

We ask Londoners if they’re concerned for students.

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00:00yeah I can't even imagine being a student in London during this living crisis right now I

00:07I was in Leeds for uni and I was already on all of the bursaries and all of the like

00:13I don't know all of the like the support you can get and it was still a huge struggle and I didn't

00:17have parents that you could borrow money from so I and that was about five ten years five six years

00:24ago so yeah I can't imagine and I think the struggle must be so real I have no tips I'm so sorry

00:30oh yeah absolutely um why does it concern me I think one of the things in the UK they're trying

00:38to do with the university model is follow the American model but I don't think you can justify

00:42charging students so much unless they've got a salary at the end of it so if you're a graduate

00:46you're going to get a certain salary that allows you to repay the debt that you've accrued um here

00:51the market isn't such that universities that are charging are able to to get their graduates

00:56employed at a reasonable salary so they can pay so they accrue debt