After you graduate university, this should mean the end of Super Noodles as a staple meal. Realistically though, you’ve probably already found out that an entry-level salary doesn’t leave you with a whole lot of extra...
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4 Time Management Tips For Students With Part-time Jobs
College or university will likely be looked back upon as some of the best years of your life. But if you have to work part-time to pay your tuition fees or support yourself throughout college, you might want to look for...
Budgeting To Pay Off A Student Loan In 4 Easy Steps
It is never easy to pay off a student loan. Many postgraduate college students are burdened by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. And the numbers are a little scary. Consider this...
Top 8 Cheap Shopping Apps For Students (And Everyone Else)
New research from the National Union of Students (NUS) student experience report shows that one in four first-year university students can’t make their first student loan instalments last more than one month, so cheap...
3 Things All Students Should Be Saving For
How much do you have in student savings? If you’re like a third of students in the UK, you’ll have less than £100 to fall back on. That means very little back-up in an emergency, and not much to make your dreams happen...
Rich Dad, Poor Dad – the book you should read in your 20s
Our current educational system has several flaws. There are two topics that are rarely touched and have a huge impact on our lives, sexual education and money. The way we think about University or even High School is a...
5 ways to fill your savings account as a student
As a student, focusing on the things that matter can be extremely difficult, because there is always plenty of entertainment and distractions. You might have a budget and are also trying different ways to spend less...
How to find work as a freelancer in UK
After writing about the reasons why you should freelance at Uni, a reader requested this post, which is going to be more focused on my experience. Finding work as a freelancer can be tough, but if you know how to play...
Why you should freelance while being a student
When I was a student at the University of Manchester for four years, my parents sent me money for living costs till the end of third year, then I told them to stop. Two events changed my financial life. The first was an...
Student rents: how they’ve increased by 184% since 2002
There was a time when students didn’t have to worry about money. Rents were low, even if the accommodation was often of questionable quality. But although students now enjoy much higher standards of accommodation, they...