It seems to me that they just decided to up the price of the apartment for the 2004/2005 academic year and just didn’t get around to posting the updatged info on the web.
And BTW, that doesn’t seem that bad. At my school, living in the residence halls cost anywhere from $1800 to $3000 a semester, which would be $3600 to $6000 a year! That’s just the room. A meal plan cost $600 to $3000 a semester as well!
Yes, it can go up that much. The total for tuition+R&B went up $1,000(546 pounds)/yr every year I was in college. Nice to see that colleges in the US aren’t the only ones out to bilk students… :rolleyes:
Well $6000 is about £3300, so it’s not that far off, and does that cover tuition fees as well because my first price doesn’t. We have another £1,050 for our tuition fees as well but that is covered by the government if you have a low-income family.
It also says I have to pay council tax which I find really ironic considering it is money coming from the council that will be helping me. Talk about going from one hand to the other.
Another 1,050 pounds for tuition? No, mine wasn’t that much…it was about fifteen times that much. I paid about $28,000/year for tuition, plus the room and board my freshman year (moved off campus after that.) The thing about American universities…they’re freakin’ expensive as all Hell! The government only gave me a few thousand a year, the rest was loans from private institutions and a big scholarship from the alumni foundation. Even still, a few thousand a year was still paid out of pocket.
I’m also in the UK, and I find this extremely surprising. Being in full-time education
should exempt you completely from council tax demands - they may mean that you
have to deal with sending the council the paperwork to prove that you’re exempt,
which is lazy of them but better than the cost of council tax!
For the record, I’ve been paying roughly £80 a week for accommodation, but
that’s for very nice rooms in central Oxford with cleaning services, water and heating included. If you’re worried about continuing cost, assuming that your
University expects you to live out at some point (and that you’re not living in
one of the expensive commutery bits of the South-East) you’ll probably find much
cheaper accommodation in your second and third years.
Yeah most places have a racket going on it seems. I’m going to school in September myself (YAY! ) but I am lucky enough to not pay that much, as it’s a college not university.
What really bugs me is the racket they have going with laptops.
See for my course a laptop is required, which isn’t so bad. What the problem is, is that I must rent said laptop from the school. Actually that isn’t so much a problem either, because it makes sense they want everyone running exactly the same thing and that the laptop will connect into the school’s network plus there is tech support right in the school if you have any problems and no need to send it to Ontario.
The problem is that this laptop for my first year alone is going to cost me $1298 Canadian including deposit. Now I get the deposit back when I return the laptop of course so really it only costs me $798. It will cost me approximately this much for my second year as well. From what I understand I can even pay more money and keep my laptop through the summer when I’m off class and then when I’m finished with school… I can buy this laptop.
Yep you read that right.
So I am going to be paying nearly $1600 to use this laptop for two years (plus more if I wish to keep the same laptop over summer) and then I can return it… or I can pay them more money to buy it. And know what? I probably will. Because I need a new computer anyway and I’ve have used this darn thing for 2 years, I’ll be used to it’s quirks.
And for the people who don’t buy the laptops they get recycled back in unless they upgraded for the new people coming in. What happens when they upgrade? Why… they refurbish all the old laptops and sell them empty of software except for Windows and maybe MSOffice to the students. For nearly $1000.
I thought that as well but this is what the contract says:
I guess that it is just there to rule out any technicalities but still…
I wasn’t running. I, erm, left the cooker on and I was rushing to, umm, turn it off. Yeah that oughta do it.
I didn’t even get to see any accommodation when I came to down to check it out, so fingers crossed. BTW, if you want to come by train to Lincoln I advise against it. Alls I know is that it is Lincoln Campus.
Even if you’re not in the brand new building, the accomadation on campus is ok. As for the train, unfortunatly I don’t drive so I have to get the train quite a bit. I’ve been at Lincoln uni for a year now, and have just about got over it.
I’m really looking forward to going back this September. I miss all my uni friends!
Cooker. That was one of the only words I didn’t understand in James Herbert’s The Others. I assume it means an oven (or stove) but it could be a crock pot for all I know. Washer, dyer, cooker, I guess it makes sense to call something that is used in cooking a cooker.
That council tax clause is just them protecting themselves. Theoretically, if you drop out of your course but remain in the halls, even for a matter of days, the council could pursue for council tax, for which residents and the owners (ie the Uni) are jointly liable. But there’s no way, in real life, that would actually happen. It’s the sort of clause that always clogs up a rental agreement when lawyers are paid by the hour to proof-read them.
Yay!
