Who doesn’t love finding money? I found a ten pence piece the other day and felt over the moon! But at the same time, if I were to lose ten pence I don’t think I’d notice; the person whose ten pence I found obviously didn’t. So when I opened a paper today and was asked to donate £2 a month to “Give water. Give life” I was pretty shocked. Water is something we take for granted. We complain because too much of it falls and makes our rivers overflow, and …

The whole student loans debacle may have left you with only part of your loan, none of it, or it may just have left you very skint. Either way, there is help available. Every university including Christ Church has its own hardship fund, otherwise known as the Access to Learning Fund. “But I wouldn’t qualify because my parents earn too much” I hear you crying. The ALF is unlike the student loans application process. You don’t have to provide details of your parents’ earnings, just what they give you. So …

Students’ face more money worries as the Government look to increase the amount we pay for our education
As if university tuition fees weren’t already expensive enough, the government is considering a dramatic increase from the current average of £3,225 to more than double that figure, seeing the cost of further education reach an all-time high of £7,000 per year.
A recent BBC survey found that two thirds of UK university vice-chancellors feel it necessary to increase yearly tuition fees in a bid to meet the rising expectations of students, with a …

Some of you may have heard that Canterbury is to be getting a ‘free-to-use’ cash machine in their Student Building, and I just wanted to update you all on this and how it affects Broadstairs.