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The honours research project did not DISS-appoint...15,000 words, a few mental breakdowns and a photoshoot later and it is done and dusted swipe to the end for how I now feel .
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PART 1 - UNI EDUCATION WITHOUT A STUDENT LOAN (not eligible to apply)
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Micheal Olorode, 21, a 4th year Biomedical Science student at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, hopes to become a NHS physiotherapist after graduation. Whilst a student, he earns £12,000 a year working 38hrs a week at Sainsburys to make ends meet. -
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“I do three night shifts a week, plus overtime if I can get it. Monday is the most hectic day for me – I work from 10pm until 8am on Saturday and Sunday nights, earning just over £100 a night, and then I have to be at my first lecture at 9am on Monday. By the time I finish lectures, at 2pm, I’m very tired, but I know I have to be back at work by 10pm.
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I am constantly having to force myself to stay awake, and to be alert, whatever it takes. A packet of Skittles and a Red Bull usually helps. The work I do at Sainsburys is very physical – stacking shelves, bringing new products out onto the shop floor. I’m lucky because I’m an active person and the amount I lift at work is nothing compared with the weights I lift in the gym. I know I have the strength to bear it.
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Unfortunately, even though I had applied for “settled” British residential status when I was very young, the Home Office waited until I was in sixth form to approve my application. That meant I wasn’t eligible for a student loan. The only way I could afford to go to university was if I got a job that would pay all my living costs and my parents, who work in market research, stumped up my tuition fees. In Scotland, that’s about £7,000 a year.
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It isn’t the best situation to be in, but I have had to make the best of it and my parents are doing everything they can to help me. They have taken on extra hours at work and got a loan from the bank. They find a way, always, to help me when I need it. I worry about them, though. They are getting old and they have my two siblings to look after as well. They try not to show me the strain they are under, but I know.” -
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