Working students could be harming their futures

[AB Asks]

Students who work to help them live whilst at university could be harming their own futures as it makes it harder to participate in extra curricular activities. Working and studying makes them too tired to participate in college live The University and College Union believes. More funding must be given to students so they can avoid this. What do you think? Should more funding be given?

[rojash]

Don't be daft - those students who don't work don't spend more time on extra-curricular activities - unless boozing and partying count!

[Reverandfunk]

What about looking at the worthless degrees they are doing ie. underwater basket weaving at the university of accrington

[Booldawg]

Well they seem to have plenty of time on their hands - hardly pushed are they? You have to be doing something pretty drastically wrong not to attain a degee.

[JohnLIreland]

"Students" and "work" are two words that are not commonly used together in the same sentence, unless the word "work" is preceded by the phrase "do not usually". The only time students are rumoured to work is if it's the last 6 weeks of their final year.

The reason for this lack of enthusiasm to work is more often than not over-participation in extra-curricular activities the previous evening, which is the reason they need to work but can't get to work because of the over-indulgence in the extra-curricular activities aforementioned.

The University and College Union want more funding, from the government or parents, because how else are they going to maintain open the student's union bar (closed to non-card holders). They have to be seen doing something in order to justify their own worthwhile positions?

I'm sure all of this can be discussed in great detail with your fellow students over a pint of suds in the local hostelry...

[what..the?]

I worked at Uni to help pay expenses plus saving to pay back my �4,000 a year loan which I was given pay for my Uni Course.

I felt I still socialised and enjoyed Uni life, it helped me pay my debts, and allowed me to keep a straight head so that when leaving Uni I could go into a job straight away and not suffer the huge step from studying to being a 9-5 employee.

Those that didn' t work socialised the same amount as me but just smoked weed all day and night.

Overall I feel better off having worked. I think the focus should be on the cost of the courses and their worth, my father had an office job and my mother stayed at home and nursed my disabled brother yet the government worked out I had to pay the whole tuition fee for my course while others got it for free. The course turned out to be worthless the lecturers were terrible and Uni facilities could have been compared with a 3rd world establishment. The Uni's lie as much as estate agents about how good their Uni is...when really the truth only hits you when you get there. To think that I paid more than �1,000 a year to go on the course and then the other expenses to go there, housing, food, course materials, it was around �4,000 a year. It makes me feel sick what a waste of money it was, as I am now in a really well paid job which I never needed the qualification to get.