agreed, though today was a good day

a 9-530) job, has a 45 minute commute to get there, and I get no money for it. =/

... *[:30]

...woah :|

fun times as a Matt then atm...

see what he ditched us and canada for?

yeah. well it was either this or waste £6000 (well, £12000 if you include maintenance loan)

how come...?

you're *paying* to work for free?

taking a wild guess, but something to do with doing a placement now and carrying on with his degree on the old tuition fee system, right?

it's part of the course. It's a pass/fail component. you fail if you don't do it, otherwise you pass (obviously)

Minimum of 4 weeks placement, either paid or unpaid. That's pretty much the restrictions on it.

it's not technically a sandwich course, but you take time out to do the placement (which has been and gone, just fyi)

so to answer yumemi, I'm still technically on the old tuition fee level as I'm not leaving the course, but people who are taking a year

placement technically are, so they come back on it in the third year on the higher tier, which sucks.

and minosSTH Yeah, I'm paying to work for free. But like I said, I have to do it.

You have to go unpaid unless you have someone who wants to hire you and pay you for that time. That's the short version anyway.

oucccch!

its part of many courses...sarah in my house has been working the whole year and not getting paid

but then she gets a loan and an NHS bursary

getting paid for the work he does...even if I feel like I work harder than some people but still get paid the same ¬¬

I had a placement, but it was during term time