MBL: Paying for University
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Tuition fees, loans, student jobs and financial help, whatever’s on your mind we’d love to hear your questions, dilemmas and advice so e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now.
Ready to guide you through university costs, student money and work will be:
Tom Allingham, Save the Student. Eden Cairnie, StudentJob. Judith McMeekin, Student Money Adviser, Ulster University. Kellie McAlonan, Student Money Adviser, University of the West of Scotland.
Presenter: Louise Cooper Producer: Diane Richardson Editor: Richard Vadon
Transcript
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| 0:47.8 | Welcome to the download of Moneybox Live, the programme about your money. I'm Louise Cooper, |
| 0:52.9 | and today we're talking about student finances. Well, over a million students will be heading off to university this month. Most are |
| 0:55.4 | using student loans to pay for tuition fees and living costs and the total borrowed is large. On |
| 1:01.4 | average, a typical student, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, leaves higher |
| 1:05.2 | education with around £50,000 of debt. So today's program is about student finances. Please do get in touch with your |
| 1:14.2 | stories and questions via email, Moneybox at bbc.com.uk or tweet at Moneybox. Well, let's speak first to |
| 1:24.2 | Helen. Welcome to Moneybox live, Helen. Thank you. Hello. Hello. Now, I have to explain, |
| 1:30.0 | we were due to speak to your son, 17-year-old Finley, but his exam time was changed, and he's |
| 1:36.7 | currently sitting in a classroom studying and working hard. So good luck to Finley. |
| 1:41.3 | Thank you. Now, he's just started his final year of A-levels, starting to look to apply for |
| 1:47.5 | universities. Where is he on that journey? Does he know when he wants to study, where he |
| 1:52.9 | wants to go? Where is he? He's been looking at this over the summer. He's sure that he wants |
| 1:58.8 | to study history, but where is the question. He's sure that he wants to study history, but the where is the question. |
| 2:02.1 | He has looked at different universities in Europe. He's looked at Sweden. He's looked at Holland, |
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