Hello yalllll I am Ollie Leigh, a non binary 20-yo moving out of a transphobic+homophobic home! It has been me living with my sister and us splitting rent but she is not supportive of me coming out. I am also a lesbian, which she makes me feel very weird about with her comments.
I am bringing my son (dog) Scoobie Doo. He is a rescue :). We are very close but he does cost money. Him, along with general expenses of groceries and eventually hrt if I get there, are why I have started a go fund me to help bolster the savings I have scrape together.
I have worked very very extremely hard for my savings as I have been payin 1k in rent to my sister every month since I moved out at 15. Anything helps, truly. Thank you guys for sharing and supporting!
If you are interested in supporting me and my Scoobert you can donate here:
Help 2 Displaced Palestinian Students with Housing
Two Palestinian students, ages 18 and 19, have been accepted with full four-… Sana Younis needs your support for Fund Living Expenses for Pa
Hello everyone, this is a campaign that my IRL friend has sent to me as she is involved as a member of the St. John’s University Coalition for Justice (instagram) and SJU Palestine Solidarity Committee (instagram).
From the Coalition’s instagram:
“Two Palestinian students have been accepted by St. John's University w/ full four-year tuition scholarships. They hope to study computer science but need your help to afford room & board in Queens, NY. ! We are raising money for their living expenses including for their rent, travel, food, and other essentials.”
The reason the Coalition is raising funds is because St. John’s refuses to offer the students room and board service, instead having their scholarships ONLY apply to being able to go to the school, thereby not treating like other students with scholarships
The campaign already has already raised $10,658 USD of $15,000 USD goal, so there’s less than $5,000 left to supply these students with the money they need to help with their education.
More information can be found from the Coalition’s instagram, which you can start with the post I’ve linked the quote from.
Please consider helping these students to be able to get their education that’s being unfairly barred from them 🙏🏽
Tags under the cut, as I’m not the most popular account and really need to get this post attention - I just put any names I could think of that spread this kind of post, so sorry if you are getting many notifications and I add to it, particularly if I have not talked with you before / you’ve never heard of me.
If anyone knows any names I should add that I didn’t, please feel free to tag people on this post
A DSA needs assessor had the audacity to tell me I needed to be more persistent and resilient yesterday and all I can think is he has no fucking clue what being disabled is like. Cos honey if I wasn't persistent I would not be here I would have died 5 years ago due to medical negligence.
When the student finance calculator is completely off so now you have to save up and extra £1,100 just to cover ACCOMMODATION. Not to mention the price of food and travel when I’m actually down there. I’m literally sobbing I don’t know what I’m gonna do.
DSA/student finance in general is stressing me out so much. They're not clear at all on what evidence they want for conditions like mine so I'm just in student forums rn trying to find out what other people did because this is so confusing
Pls help me reach my goal by sharing or donating even if it's a dollar or two. I'm from a low income household and am struggling to afford living costs for uni. The uk would have many more benefits for me as someone pursuing music, so I'd appreciate any help 🙏
Hi! My name is Star and I'm a student who would like to study music in the UK. I come from … Star Hoang needs your support for Help Star stu
Change will see many paying for their degree until retirement in what has been called a ‘lifelong graduate tax’
“Students in England will have to pay back university loans over 40 years instead of 30 under swingeing reforms designed to save the Treasury tens of billions of pounds. [...]
In a move designed to sugar the pill, interest rates on student loans will be slashed for new borrowers and set at no higher than the rate of inflation from next year – but experts said this would disproportionately benefit higher earning graduates. [...]
In a double whammy, graduates will also be asked to start paying off their debt sooner after the government confirmed the repayment threshold will be cut from £27,295 to £25,000 for new borrowers starting courses from September 2023. [...]
Annual tuition fees will be capped at £9,250 for a further two years, keeping costs down for students but hitting universities, which have seen the value of tuition fees eroded over the years due to inflation.”
Hmm, interest rates are currently BoE interest rate + 5%, capping them at inflation is a positive step. The other stuff, not so much.
To be honest, the issue is not really with the student loan system itself, but the fact you need a bachelor’s to get an entry level job, that the onus of work training has been shifted from employer to employee.
There is no reason you need a degree to work a typical entry level job. Even in a relatively specialised field like a lab, a degree does not prepare you to use current technology. You are trained on the job anyway, but you cannot get the job without a BSc that is irrelevant. And of course, it is minimum wage.
Until you can get an entry level job, above minimum wage, without a degree, there will always be this deficit of students who feel compelled to take out student loans, stay in low paid work, and never pay back the loan in full. But how can you change the nature of employers at this point, when the market is supersaturated with bachelor’s degree holders..?
