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'hardly have to pay anything back'...

I lose £120 a month from my wages on student loan repayment!

It's changed recently though, so people who got student loan last year or this year won't pay back as much at all.

You only now have to pay anything back if you earn more than £125 a year and it's a pretty low amount even then, something like £65 a month if you're on 30 grand a year

I understand that it's a small amount of money per month, but it's still £13-15 grand to repay, the debt won't go away.

It gets cancelled out now after X years

30 years, it's still a long time and ends up amounting to a fair bit but I don't thinks it's as bad as people make out.

Average student debt is something like £51,000 apparently (actually uni fees and living fees) But if you're earning over £22k in your job they take out ~9% from your salary to pay it. Yeah and if it isn't re-paid then it's cancelled anyway I think.

My plan is, when I get the student loan, not to blow it all on booze but on airsoft lol.

It's still a fair bit admittedly but if people don't like it there's always the option of not going. Apprenticeships and other alternatives are available.

To be fair: I don't drink booze, usually eat well (cheaply) and live in Scotland- so no tuition fees. I have no need for a gym membership and my parents are paying for my bus pass. I think I should be fine. The Student Loan Company have started to send out your loan in parts (For example, I got £950 paid in this month, get another £950 paid in in december and so on) so that you don't blow all £4500 in a oner

Oh yeah forgot about the no tuition fees

that's always been the case, you get one payment per term. £950 to last til christmas though.... I dunno if I'd make it through the next 2 weeks!

seriously? I've barely spent over £30 on food in the past 2 weeks

In 2 weeks, I've spent just under £16 on food, which I think is quite good going to be honest!

Are "normal" (I dont mean to offend by saying normal sorry if you take it the wrong way, I mean other as in non Military not plain and dull) Uni's/Colleges much different to Military ones? In the student life point of view?

yes. I have a friend (for the sake of this post we'll call him Marine) who went to Wellbeck, and is currently in Military college *Cant remember off the top of my head which one*.Marine has been wanting to join the Royal Marines since like first year of high school and hasn't really deferred from that objective since- top guy in CCF, was looking at head of the entire contingent if he wasn't going to Wellbeck. Got a message on a Skype chat with him and a few friends [the friends g...

...o to Edinburgh uni] earlier this week. Somehow, we managed to get onto how we were finding uni/college. He says that, party-wise, he hates it. However, he enjoys what he is doing in his studies.

If I were you, I wouldn't go into a military college. Just keep an eye out for an ACF, OTC or TA near (or, for OTC/ACF, at) your preferred choice of university. If you can guarantee that you want to go into the military when you leave, apply for a bursary from them (they pay you to...

...get through uni/college) and you have to do the minimum 4 years service with them when you are done. I was considering doing this, but I'm not really built for soldiering XD

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