[Closed] Avoiding the feared fee's!

lewismorgan - Member
there's truth in this, but with such a large sum of money it's worth exploiting every option possible.

Again the threshold is £21,000. If I intended to leave uni with a salary less than this then really and truly, it would be a complete waste of time me going to uni.

Most of the chem engineers at my work seem to have gone to a Teeside/Newcastle uni. Lots of chemical works over that way and remnants of ICI

I'll probably get a telling off from the Mods for this but hey ho,
Captain Flash heart your an out right ****, your racist, your cocky and your not funny, your the ass wipe of society.

I'm normally calm but "A gay muslim swam" you pushed it too far mate, its a shame scum like you still exist in this world.

turin - Member

Northwind, The media were reporting that UoE were not doing a 3 for 4 deal. Now Im not saying that the media are entirely correct all of the time...

They're not doing 3 for 4, but like I say they have a stack of bursaries available. Means tested for the main fees support, but they've added- or said they would be adding anyway- to the number of other bursaries they offer, and the family income limit is fairly high

Now all unis tend to use bursaries for the same purpose- ie, saying "Look! We do bursaries for poor people and womens!" but they all make it surprisingly difficult to find out about it. So they could have tons more that you can only find by calling a secret number on a full moon, or something. But the RUK Bursary details are on their website.

<this double post was sponsored by Alex Salmond>

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I know that Herriot Watt has definitely put a £27,000 cap on there fee's so at £9000 a year that does mean you effectively only pay for 3 years.

Lewis - It's "YOU'RE"

I'm normally calm but "A gay muslim swam" you pushed it too far mate, its a shame scum like you still exist in this world.

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Captain Flash heart your an out right ****, your racist, your cocky and your not funny, your the ass wipe of society.

I'm normally calm but "A gay muslim swam" you pushed it too far mate, its a shame scum like you still exist in this world.

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I'm normally calm but "A gay muslim swam" you pushed it too far mate, its a shame scum like you still exist in this world.

I'm shocked that you think Gay Muslim Swans are repulsive! I s'pose you think that swans should be White, Christian and Hetro?
It's just this sort of causal racist, homophobic, sectarian prejudice that's ruining the country.

Yup, that we are. And also some more bursaries, and more cash in the emergency funds and suchlike. There was a brief rumour that RUK students would get first year free, which i bet would have done wonders for dropout rates. "90% of english students dropped out after a year!"

Did you do one of the HW open days btw? Was it good? Keeping it on topic, HW have loads of swans, statistically some of them are probably gay and one or two might even be muslim. They're all [i]bastards[/i] though regardless of religion or preference.

your lame

*Spits beer at laptop screen in laughter!*

Small h for haven't please.

Someone has got their knickers in a twist haven't they?

all there nice new roads

Have you thought about aberdeen uni? there's plenty of decent biking up here and the uni's pretty good too, also if you're wanting to get into oil and gas then why not go where all the oil is, i.e aberdeen? also there's plenty of decent banter in the uni mtb club 😀

Brycey-YOUR a ****

It's you're 🙄

LOL @ Bruneep

NorthWind

I did yes, I was really impressed by the atmosphere of the campus, and liked the fact it was set out of the city a little bit. Really impressed, and they seemed well in there with the oil companies, chevron was it?

I'm normally calm but "A gay muslim swam" you pushed it too far mate, its a shame scum like you still exist in this world.

<edit> damn - beaten to it by Ian 🙂

DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING!

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[url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7585978/Gay-swans-set-up-nest-at-worlds-only-swannery-in-Dorset.html ]Clickylinky[/url]

Baws; went to get a drink there, have I missed some edited out abuse directed at me?

Have we done swans on conveyor belts?

What's your opinion on herriot watt northwinds?

Have you thought about aberdeen uni?

Pi$$ off dinna want him up here.

You mean Heriot-Watt?

Ha is that where your from, explains everything
Like a Scousing git crossed with a Tibetan monk

Like a Scousing git crossed with a Tibetan monk

nah m8 i ment herriott wats

Scousing, v. Irr. The act of searching for Liverpudlians using a forked stick to detect their presence.

<googles> Scousing git crossed with a Tibetan monk

lewismorgan - Member
Ha is that where your from, explains everything
Like a Scousing git crossed with a Tibetan monk
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Cool. Well I'm not on the company clock right now and I'm not on commission, but I do work on the open days so I'm glad it didn't suck 😉

ah right, yes it was a fantastic day! What do you do for them then?

Lewis - IT'S "YOU'RE"

oh really, i don't know if your aware i'm taking the mick

ahh, bliss. 😆

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oh really, i don't know if your aware i'm taking the mick

is that the Edinburgh defense? you should fit right in.

is that the Edinburgh defense? you should fit right in.

*Applauds*

I was just about to ask if that was an example of the Edinburgh Defence, makes sense now.

is that the Edinburgh defense? you should fit right in.

Double post.

[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/possible-numpty-new-mobile-battery-question#post-3110683 ]Nice[/url] way to win people over.

Please delete this whole thread if your reading this mods! I'm fed up with the naff insults!

Don Simon, was about to post the same.

Lewis, you appear to be an asshat.

Lewis - It's "You're"

What for when you work so hard on them.
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/halfords-i-knew-thered-be-trouble ]http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/halfords-i-knew-thered-be-trouble[/url]
Always top, entertaining threads Lewis.

Anyone know what the parking like up at Heriot-Watt? I've got a TT and I'm a bit worried by jealous types keying it.

lewismorgan - Member

What do you do for them then?

I'm a student recruitment dogsbody- degree salesman, basically Open days, prospectuses, marketing, visits and such.

So I am contractually obliged to say we're ace 😉 But I studied there, back in the day, and liked it.

Though on the other hand, you'd lower our grammatical average significantly, despite all the foreign students, so I would say keep well away.

IanMunro - Member

Anyone know what the parking like up at Heriot-Watt? I've got a TT and I'm a bit worried by jealous types keying it.

Park beside one of the nicer cars in the main car park then. Worst that can happen is some staff member drives his bike-laden Focus into it. Visitor and student parking is mixed and loads of staff park in there too, and some folks from the research park too, so no shortage of tidy cars for me to crash into.

I don't believe you all managed to miss the title! 'Avoiding the feared [b]fee's![/b]

*fees

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Actually on topic, and might be actual advice rather than piss taking, but...

Have a look at unis outside the UK. Can be cheaper and have far better riding than anywhere, even in scotland.

Top of my list if I were you would be ETH in Zurich, not sure of the fees, but it is a really world class institution.

Also worth checking out are Grenoble, Politecnico di Torino, TU Munich and TU Vienna.

These are all great technical schools and ETH in particular can be considered as up there with MIT, Cambridge and Stanford for engineering. Also you can be in the mountains in 30 mins with chair lifts and 30 minute descents....

lewismorgan - Member
Please delete this whole thread if your reading this mods! I'm fed up with the naff insults!

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Theyre all in the pub, or watching X FACTOR, ON ITV 1 and ITV1 PLUS 1, thats what a univercity degree does for you.

Also whats so offenive about a gay-muslim-swan

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**** me it took till page 4 for someone to say it's 'fees' FFS. Suggest a course in the correct use and application of grammar, spend the money, it'll be worth it because all us older employers will reject any future application regardless of your BA whatever if you can't spell .... [wanders off tutting..] 🙄

Most universities will offer a precessional english-as-a-foreign-language course which might be suitable.

Can't you study somewhere else?
Going from a lovely place like Italy to Scotland would be a shock to the system.

I actually know several Italian graduates who chose to do postgrad study in Scotland and subsequently live here instead of Italy. Nowt as funny as folk.

I'm normally calm but "A gay muslim swam" you pushed it too far mate, its a shame scum like you still exist in this world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_gag

HTH.

Bit rich Lewis, throwing accusations around when YOU started a thread on ways to defraud the system?.

Degrees in Holland are cheap and often taught in English.

That said, I'd not gripe about the fees too much - as I understand it, the majority will never pay them back anyway, so it works out cheaper than the old system...

i'm just askin' - but how would one pay for one's rent/food/beer if one studied at a 'free' university in the Netherlands/Sweden/wherever?

best thread in ages, thanks lewis.

(some of my favourite swans are gay)

Whist not wishing to spoil the fun with a serious suggestion. How about studying English at a French university Lewis? The fees are very reasonable, the locals welcoming and the course content appropriate.

Ed' (can we call you Ed'?) The fees may be 'reasonable', but how would one pay them? Can uk students take out a uk student loan to pay for a course in another country?

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(i ask because i don't know)

**** me it took till page 4 for someone to say it's 'fees' FFS

EDIT: And [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/avoiding-the-feared-fees?replies=143#post-3110012 ]here[/url]

Lewis old chap, a bit of safety advice for you that may just save your life. Herriot Watt Uni is pretty damn close to two of the roughest parts of Edinburgh. It's probably not all that safe for you to go to that uni with your attitude.

You sound like you'd fit right in with the gormless section of the Edinburgh Uni student body.

Militant_biker takes an already brilliant thread into the realms of [i]meta-[/i]pedantry.

Top work!

... pretty damn close to two of the roughest parts of Edinburgh

Currie and Balerno - shit yeah.

Ed is fine by me. A loan to pay a couple of hundred euros? I don't know either, when my son goes it'll be financed by the bank of dad like most French students. If all goes to his current plan it'll be a year in France, an Erasmus year in Germany and then back to France.

As for financing studies, working on the checkout in Leclerc and prostitution are possibles.

Stuartie_C - I was thinking more along the lines of Sighthill and Wester Hailes.

I know. 😉

Then there's Easter Hailes which is a hellhole.

Oh dear did anyone pull folk up over the usual canards?

project - Member.

If britain is bankrupt , so will scotlanshire be when it goes it alone with no oil or gas to sell, as its uk oil nad gas.

Errmmm- the Oil thats in the Scottish fields as defined in international law? Most of the Gas is English tho

lewismorgan
And I've nothing against the Scottish, but when they think they can fund there own education and free prescriptions and all there nice new roads, I'm awaiting the day they realise there leaching off the English

I really suggest you don't come to Edinburgh if thats your attitude

For the record the scots economy remains in surplus and Scotland actually puts money into the UK economy whilst getting a smaller and smaller % of the UK spending every year.

So each year that passes Scotland is worse and worse off as a result of support the English

whilst getting a smaller and smaller % of the UK spending every year.

Come on TJ you got to do better than that. 😉
[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/oct/26/public-spending-uk-government-department ]The figures[/url] show it's increasing even as a % of UK spending.

(my maths is not a strong point but I have it going from 4.92 to 5.05 % of total spend)

I kind of just skipped to the end after reading the first page....
Iirc you'll only have to pay for 3 years you'll get your final year free.
And as you're going to do Chem Eng, being poor/paying off student debt won't be something you'll have to worry about for very long, I've yet to meet a poor chemical engineer.

Well.. Admittedly, I haven't read any of this nonsense...
but I will say, as far as becoming Italian goes, good luck.
Although they can defer you for up to 6 months.. their actual requirements to becoming a citizen make it about as easy as becoming a BC resident. Italy, in all respects, is a 3rd world country. They only speak Italian.. and even at that they only speak THEIR italian. It's hilarious actually.. but, if you can't speak talian, they wont even consider you trying to help the economy in anyway. And! Finding a job as a foreigner, because being there on an english companies work contract doesn't count towards your time living there, will be a sunuvabitch.

Try Aberdeen?

I really suggest you don't come to Edinburgh if thats your attitude

Well said Jeremy.