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TRUMP VS. CLINTON: THE REPORT
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10TH OCTOBER 2016 | ISSUE 31 | FREE
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STUDY HARD, THEN GO HOME?
• NEARLY HALF OF ALL GRADUATES MOVE BACK HOME • 62% STILL IN NON-STUDENT DEBT BY TOOBA HAQ Unrealistic living costs, high student debt and a lack of government support has made a generation of graduates move back in with their parents, a major NUS study has revealed. The study has shown that thanks to student loan debt, nearly half of all new graduates move back home. The students living at home are either unemployed or in some sort of part-time work 6 months after their course ends. According to the research, graduates feel that the fees
they paid for their course are not worth what they got out of it. Up to 52% of students in 2015 felt that their course was not worth the money they paid and 72% of students were concerned about their level of student debt. More than three quarters of the participants in the study were worried that the government might change the terms of the loans they had taken out to make they pay more. NUS vice president, Sorana Vieru said; “Jo Johnson’s reforms cause more harm
than good.” “The majority are in debt, not to the student loan repayments, but they also owe money to banks, credit care companies and loan sharks.”
“JO JOHNSON’S REFORMS CAUSE MORE HARM THAN GOOD” 62% of graduates still had other debt unrelated to
government tuition fee loans left over from their degree. 46% had accumulated further debt since finishing their studies. Furthermore, three times as many full-time working men than women graduates were earning over £30,000. From the University of Westminster, survey showed 64% of undergraduates were in work, 16% were in further study with 2.8% of respondents working and studying at the same time. However, when postgraduates were taken into account the number decreased to 2.1%. MORE ON PAGE 3...
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MIND BEHIND TUBE CHAT BY RITUJA RAO Charming and bright, Jonathan Dunne sounds as excited as one can be, “I am talking to journalist from around the world”. The QH spoke to Jonathan, the man that got London talking. Originally from Colorado, he brought this idea to the London tube to get more people talking to each other when travelling. “The Tube chat badge in a way is a
permission for people to talk to you”, he said. It obviously comes as a challenge given the current taboos of talking to people Tube chat went viral and also saw a huge backlash on social media. But this has not discouraged Jonathan at all, “In fact, loads of people are contacting me, congratulating me, it’s great!”, However, it has not all been rosy beds for him, he humbly recalled, “It has been much harder than I thought it would be. It’s difficult to get people talking”. He distributes these batches himself, and Londoners can be very difficult to persuade. His inspiration was his mundane journey on the tube with everyone transfixed on their smartphones Jonathan Dunne, 42, has been funding this initiative on his own, paying for each badge he creates. He said, “Logistics are the biggest problem in my endeavour. My first goal is to manufacture more badges because I’ve run out of them!” It has been a rollercoaster ride for him, but it is mostly good things among loads of funny memes. When quizzed about any other ideas in the pipeline, he enthusiastically replied, “You never know.”