Student poverty: Quarter of UK universities run food banks
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2023
- For students, struggling to make ends meet often comes with the territory - but while the cost of living has soared over the last year, maintenance loans have not.
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The result: one in four UK universities are now running food banks - according to a new survey.
Our Business Reporter Amelia Jenne visited one of them in Buckinghamshire, to speak to students living on the breadline.
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What a broken and desperate country we’ve become 😥
why ? Because dumb students are stupid enough to waste time at low grade Universities to avoid actually having to work ?
Import the third world, become the third world.
I can't recognise the hardships students face these days. Graduated in '88, thank God.
You had to good for too.long, now at £300 billion deficit, you're living on spiraling debt.
IT'S CALLED MASS IMMIGRATION GET OVER IT NOW THE UK IS TAKING IN 100,000 ILLEGALS PER YEAR BORIS TOOK IN 3 MILLION CHINESE SUNAK YOUR INDIAN LEADER IS TAKING IN THOUSANDS FROM INDIA
Try sending your daughter to university when your disabled yourself and have no money to support them yourself it’s heartbreaking knowing you cannot help out!!!
Every parent worries about their children. The important part is raising them right to be fully functioning independent adults before you send them off.
Thinking back to my own time at university, I remember spending at least two months just eating beans on toast for every meal. It didn’t help that my place didn’t have a working cooker or fridge for that matter. Instead we had a toaster/kettle/microwave combo, que lots of beans on toast. While I paid 19p for the Tesco value baked beans and 39p Tesco Value white sliced bread despite 25 years of inflation, Stockwell & Co Baked Beans In Tomato Sauce is 28p and H W Nevill's White Bread is 45p so you can still get by on nought. The important part is teaching them to stomach two months on just baked beans on toast which might be the issue here not being beyond poor.
Tell them to get jobs. They will be better off in the long run.
Student loans
@@curiositycloset2359 it not easy getting a job since we’re in a time of belt tightening which hits student doubly hard since bar tending which is the traditional student job can’t keep in business let alone employ more people. Maybe it’s high time for supermarket pub party that old Tim Martin has been rattling on for years now.
@@Zabzim Litterally every pub, shop, and restaurant around where I live is advertising an urgent need for staff, and this is a University town...
Future is bleek. They'll be a huge gap in the coming decade of skilled workforce. From doctors to carpenters. They'll all emigrate elsewhere and the ones left aren't up to the job due to lack of education, directly linked to the costs.
In this country government were not training enough people to become carpenters, bricklayers and other profession etc.
Nah, we're literally getting boat loads of skilled migrants by the day!
Aren't we?
@@shahankhan8777The government doesnt 'train people'.
Quit looking to the state to solve everything.
I'm a welder fabrication steel construction engineer. Also a computer engineer. Plus driven FLT counterbalance for over 20 years.
I never went to University. But did night school while working full time.
😂😂we import for those jobs these days anyway!🙄
Thank god I went the apprenticeship route
I'm not sure thanking God helped 😂😂
it shouldn't be this way.this is a choice by a heartless,callous,self interested,non tax paying super wealthy tory tiny minority.its evil,immoral ,unjust & cannot be justified.but this is tory run ,broken,bankrupt brexshite britain.# GET THE TORYS OUT.END POVERTY.MAKE THE SUPER WEALTHY PAY SUPER TAX.
Very sensible/lucky decision! I wish I’d done the same.
Spending a year on £3.50 is a pisstake though, an hours work to barely afford a Tesco meal deal 💀
👍🏻
As somebody who went to university and completed my degree in 2012, i cannot recommend it to anyone. Most degrees are completely useless in terms of getting real world jobs, and you end up back in a standard job within a few months of finishing your degree wondering why you even bothered doing it in the first place
Not if you pick a degree that is carefully chosen to match what the workforce requires..... The problem is that most student pick the 'nice' courses that they want to enjoy but which bear little resemblance to what employers are looking for.
@@christianmarriott3696 not totally true though. There are too many people with degrees for the available jobs which means most people miss out due to the high competition for those roles. You end up very over qualified in some basic job somewhere. In previous generation you would stand out if you had a degree level education, then it started to be that most people had a degree so a masters was the level to achieve, now even a masters may not even be enough for some roles. I’m 34 and i’m in a decent career now so i don’t care, but my degree has been utterly useless towards where i am now, so i have to be honest and warn people not to make that same mistake and waste time. Most employers favour experience anyway so my advice would be to get onto apprenticeships. Gaining the qualifications whilst gaining the actual work experience is miles and miles and miles better than getting a degree, and will land you in a decent role ready to move further up that ladder.
@@christianmarriott3696 Exactly , most of these students are studying poxy subjects that have no utility in the real world. Sociology , media studies , gender studies , creative design etc.... Instead of choosing a degree that will have some utility and value after they graduate.
@ablez2009 : you said it right. I have experienced the same I am in india, what I studied is not what employers want. I feel like I have wasted my time and energy in unhelpful academic studies. No use, no value.
@@randomdude79404all those degrees have utility and humanities have just as much importance as STEM subjects in some aspects
When will there be food banks for MPs?
millions of people in the UK are facing poverty, destitution and extreme stress, the cost of living and high energy prices is making life unbearable, UK likes to portray itself as a rich nation but many outsiders would be shocked at the poverty of its citizens
UK Universities , they don't look very British to me .
Left the country 7 years ago and I think that was a good decision.
To where?
Dont believe the hype dont go to uni for a worthless degree do an apprentiship and get a trade ...youll be earning 1000 plus per week with little debt ..
All of overweight.
How come the low number of white students? Is this the way white kids are not being given Uni places or implying that white kids have loads of money and do not need food banks?
Likely the uni. If you look at the RG ones, they're full of white kids. However those kids also come from affluent homes.
Maybe try working like the rest of us ! 😂 ... crazy suggestion
They need to cut down on the amount of degrees there are. And the amount of students unis are allowed to take in, from my own experience finding accommodation in a town or city where there’s a uni is either impossible to extremely expensive. Unis are way to corporate.
Why not make unis and student housing less corporate
@@petrus_redHow?
Universities are mostly just ideological indoctrination camps now.
Should probably stop pissing money away on uber eats and booze then. They are students, this is nothing new.
Don't think that would quite fix the problem but OK.
This makes me sad but online courses are the ones
What a future when the debt of gaining a degree wouldn't be worth anything in a dystopian future.
the student bars in glasgow city center are PACKED EVERY WEEKEND & BUSY DURING THE WEEK ....FACT ..DON'T TAKE MY WORD LOOK AT TRANSMIT GLASTONBURY ECT ECT ECT
Not all cities cost the same to live in, Glasgow is cheap London is expensive. Your anecdote is cute and all but it doesn't take the bigger picture into account.
Why are these people even going to uni? There wont be any jobs for them when they finish.
This is a complete joke! What is the point of putting children through mandatory education if there is little to no support for them when they go to uni. Isnt the whole point of education to get people to uni eventually?
No. Uni isn't the point of education. The point of education is to create employees and functional members of society.
Universities were designed from their inception to be for the top 6% of society. The remaining 94% of a generation are supposed to participate in other kinds of tertiary training or find other gainful employment.
They are trying to get people who do not belong in uni to go in order to benefit from increased profits.
should not be , these mediocre Universities only teach them stupid liberal nonsense like hating Jews and Tories
@@tjmarx Spotted the 🤡
@@tjmarx You are wrong. We are in 2023 not 1923. Modern education is all based around grades and preparing for higher education. All you need do is to look at society these days to discover that little emphasis is put into bringing up "functional members of society". Besides it is very difficult to be a "functioning member of society" nowadays if you don't hold a university degree.
@@jakereevesward4562 Were you near a mirror at the time?
Learning has become big business. Courses are made to sound perfect. Universities should be made to show students the percentage of jobs that are acquired after taking each course. Seems lecturers using their platform to brainwash instead of inform that's if they turn up. Students are immature as they not encouraged to grow up as they are a commodity now. Learning should be unbiased and free.
But I bet they got enough money for drill music and laughing gas.....
So its Black students who are using food banks based on your thumbnail pictire?
So where is this fee money going ? 😂
Try getting a small job whilst studying, you know like the old days when people were not raised in bubble wrap? Just a thought.
The great reset at work. Reset the entire banking system….
Probably spending too much on drink,phones etc,think they are entitled to everything
Student loan doesn't cover rent and food. If you cut down on night outs and takeaways it will
So glad to have graduated and gotten my engineering job, I don't have to stress about all this ever again
They're the lucky ones
1/4 yaeh? Fine.... then take another 1/4 of that - it's 1/16. Most of them just explo!t possibilities of free food coz they're more likely to spend money during the weekend/every night party.
CH4 - true stories but lets make it x4 more dramatic ;) Views counts!
BS ya showing here!
The student union president doesnt look like he is skipping any meals
Poverty is a choice.
So is being a slave!😊
I wonder those students using food bank, when they get good job or respectable position, will they remember their hardship of students life, to help future generation of student to come. As for my opinion I don't think government really care about masses education.
No!.
I’m so grateful my parents let me stay in the house and inherit maybe the property once we buy a new home, it is really hard with inflation everywhere and food prices are outrageous!
I do not get it. Students from uk get the student loan which pays their university. No money spent from their pockets which is a big help compared to other students who come to study in uk.
Also, there is maintenance loan aprox £10000 per school year. If you are careful with your spending is more than enough. Weekend shifts can come handy as extra money.
My sis' student load goes almost entirely on fees and accomodation (nothing fancy).
Most goes on housing probably
If only we had a way of earning money .... we used to call it work
Yea it's a shame jobs don't pay properly anymore
you should rly touch on the cost differences of a family that has 3 kids, earns 40k a year - Now and 12 months ago.
40k turned into 25k
If students are couch surfing how can they concentrate on studies.
So they want a free money to subsidise them getting qualifications that they will benefit from? Ummmm. Work part time and study part time, stay at home if you can.
Might as well not go uni just do apprenticeships then more garuntee you can get a job in the end 😢
Nothing sad or tearful about learning a trade that can give you a lifelong career
@@danw5760 I meant the uni fees and now food banks that are in university which was unheard of years ago
Euurggh , this is the modern University of 2023
So where are the South Asian students? They only asked black and one East Asian student.
I live on 50 pounds per week and I live comfortably. Well, I don't pay rent, use my bike for transportation (a bike I found in a rubbish bin which I fixed using parts from other discarded bikes), don't heat my flat, don't go to pubs, don't buy clothes, and I pay less council tax cos my income is low. Still, I have electricity, water, hot water, internet, phones (both mobile and static), and I eat well (buying reduced-to-clear food, not necessarily the food I want to eat that is). I don't go to food banks because I don't think I need it. I can even afford to have a beer or a buckfast once per week! I also travel abroad about once per year (courtesy of Ryanair the airfare is about 45 pounds in both directions).
I have a lot of spare time (as I work for up to 15 hours per week) which I put to good use and I sleep for 9 hours every night. My life is boring but easy.
Is it possible to live on 30 pounds? Yes, but it is not comfortable. I've done it. It is more like survival though. Still, even such a lifestyle is better than that of most working people in China, India, or Africa. Bottom line: life in UK is good. It is a pitty that most Brits don't appreciate how good it is.
Students are blowing their grants on booze and drugs. I have seen this for myself. Especially during freshers week, when charities are sheparding them like a pack of children.
Yes! If the students round where I live spent their money on food instead of the alcohol they buy then this wouldn’t be a problem!
Your comment is biased. What percentage are you talking about here…Stop generalising. Am a mother and a mentor to a number of young university students and never have I witnessed what you’re highlighting here. Yes it may have happened but it’s not reflective on a majority of the students. The problem highlighted in this video is real and students need to be supported as most of their SFL goes to accommodation and most of these accommodation agencies are literally just taking advantage of the situation.
@dimplydimples9344 Facts don't care about your feelings, and your naivety is not a defence from the facts. Maybe you should do a little research before giving your opinions?
@@AT-ytinvasive I expected this…Do better next time.
@@dimplydimples9344 🤣
They look starving aye...
The Student Loan Co. is doing alright though !!!
I like how you say the uk try to say in England
Seems like a logical place to have them.
Only ¼?
What a very diverse group of students they interviewed, a lovely image of Broken Britain in 2023 !.
A degree these days is about as much use as Mcdonalds Food Menu.
The Future of this Country.......
If you cannot afford education, get a full time proper job and save until you can. That is what a lot of your predecessors did. Universities dont care who attends, or what they learn, they just want the money
But they want the easy life!
What has become of this country, run by this dreadful government over the past 13 years. Another outrageous failing of the administration. Truly appalling.
2:09 "We've supported students for decades"
This is not in any way, shape, or form a new phenomenon. Nor is it particular to any government. It's how the system is set up to function.
@@tjmarx you joking? you seen how much tuition fees have gone up in past 13 years?
@@jimbowen423 Similar to the rate they went up over the preceding 13 years, and the 13 years before that...
Moreover, universities have stopped being elite institutions of higher learning. They have instead lowered their standards drastically in order to allow as many people entry as possible, particularly lucrative international students. This behaviour turns universities from centres of academia into corporatised paper mills focused solely on profit.
This in turn lowers the value of such a qualification in the labour market. University is intended for the top 6% of academic performers in a given year. It is not intended for everyone.
@@tjmarx what pathetic mentality
13yrs!? And the rest lol
Get a job while at university.
Same country where people spend £50k on a night out. I have seen it with my own eyes.
So the government got what they wanted then 😂 it’s all to insure the working and middle class aren’t going to uni
Having a part time job is necessary for university students, both for income and life experience. My sister and I and all our cousins worked while studying. I personally was forced to support myself for 99% of my university time. I was working all evenings and weekends and all holidays… Hardship is a blessing in disguise, it builds character and makes you more resourceful, in the current world only the fittest can “make it” (and I’m not talking only about money but about life in general). Here is a quote of my favourite phrase “Do what you can with what you’ve got “. And please people, let’s go to vote when the time comes, and vote wisely!!
Well I won't be voting for the CUNTservatives or liebour put it that way 🏴
Students always complain. When I was a student in the 80s there used to be a bread and cheese lunch for 50p, and it was packed. Always looking for cheap food so that we can spend more on booze and nights out. This is a good exercise for students to lean budgeting and financial prudence now they are away from their parents. Suck it up and get on with it. You'll earn a fortune as a graduate.
Cost of living is a real joke
So 3 out of 4 Universities have students who know how to budget.
Biggest scam, unless you're doing engineering,maths, doctorate and etc... most people end up taking a useless degree, coming out heavily indebted. Eventually, they end up with a job close to minimum to average wage. Whilst still owing insane amounts of money.
I'm starting this year and I'm living out of my car.
Best of luck 👍
Look at the rich person, I'm living out of my cardboard box.
@@reallymakesyouthink
You flash git
I’m living out of a hole in the ground
They should quit uni and get a full time job.
Nore help for Ukraine
None for the british
University isn't a right.
When working around dialysis and very ill with 8 different medical diagnosis I was only earning just under 10k per year. Travel expenses etc for the Medicals and work totalled over £1500 a year so food and buying food was very hard but I got by through eating out of next doors bin as so much fresh food wasted. Next door didn't work and hadn't worked for over 20 years. But thankfully they got that much benefits that a half eaten joint of freshly cooked pork went into the bin.. joy for a working dialysis patient
No one’s buying this bullshit
It's a choice to be a slave😊👍
Who needs to eat when you go party! I remember 5 years ago while I was on zero hour contract earning less £30 a week in a supermarket when I see students buying booze and going to parties, clubbing etc. They got plenty of money to spend. Plus on Netflix...
I hope these students their butts out and vote the Tories out.
Maybe they should stop spending most of their money on booze, drugs and takeaways
Why don't they use their safe spaces?
What a way to start of the future nation builders.
It's a crying shame.
This Incompetent government Must GO.
Stay at home and save up £10,000 before going uni
Wish it wasnt this way
Part of student life is going to the pub, clubbing at weekends, going to music gigs, going to music in the park events. This is particularly so during their first year. They've thrown off the shackles of home life and suddenly have the freedom to do what they want without the intervention of parents. Unfortunately they have to blow a lot of money to do all that.
I know, I was that student, and I stupidly did all that !!
If they have money let them do it otherwise they should spend wisely.
The majority of students no longer have the money to do this. They’re staffing the pubs, not in them.
And there's people out there who have their favourite curry flown all the way from New York to London because they've got that much money they don't know what to do with it 🇬🇧
Get into the best university you can and get a good, valuable degree.
If postgrad help is there, get a Masters, too.
Rack up as much debt as you need.
Them emigrate.
Which is exactly what migrants are doing already.
What is my son gonna do
People at University willl just quit saves money and go in a job that requires minimum wage to survive.
Food banks are needed for these students so they can afford to spend their cash on partying. The pubs in our town main customers are students.
Pizzas!!!
Bless them all❤🙏 makes u angry seeing this poverty must end
The Girl being interviewed is stunning 😍
I wish her success and happiness in her life she deserves better
I love her for my girlfriend×wifey I can dream!!
Lol-:)😉
Simp behaviour
Classic trades have always been a sensible career route, but never more so than right now. AI is coming, and its coming for white collar graduate style jobs... lawyers, accountants,marketers, designers, etc. These jobs will be effected long long before ai robots are doing the plumbing
True face of UK.
Nothing changed since 17th cenutry...all facade.
Wait until next year you'll be lucky if you've got a food bank the way the UK is sinking to 3rd world status we will need world aid from Africa
Import the 3rd world and become the 3rd world
Why are people so judgy? Do you even remember what you were like at their age? And no, I don't think all their money goes on booze and takeaway although they might struggle finding time to cook! I hate that young people that clearly want to learn have to struggle this much.
Because maybe most of the people ‘judging’ live in areas overrun with students! I do, there’s thousands of them where I live and I see it day in day out, the amount of alcohol you see getting carried out of Asda and Aldi by these students is staggering!! I do student houses and have to clean up after these nightly parties (and I’m not exaggerating when I say ‘nightly) the amount of money they spend on beer, wine, spirits is ridiculous! I think students have got on to the fact that they can waste money on alcohol and going out frequenting the bars and then go crying poverty to the food banks to be given free food! If the food banks didn’t allow students to go raiding the places then maybe they would have enough food and daily essentials for families who really do need to use them! And these ‘poor’ 😏students would realise instead of pissing away their money on partying they should feed themselves first.
@@irenemcgrath7739spot on!
@@irenemcgrath7739But when the average overweight uneducated British tradesman or office worker who bought their council house for 10p, binges on beer and can’t afford to send their kids to college - that’s fair? Every single person I know at sixth form and uni works above the recommended average, with contracts that give them crazy hours and low wages. Part time (more like half time) work on top of academic study and being an adult for the first time ever, and not being able to lean on your family due to the financial stresses on them, is infinitely harder than what the majority of the population is going through. Get some perspective.
Yea cus theyre spending their money getting mashed 😂
We need a revamping effort and right to education and doing research work should be guaranteed by the constitution and education must have scholarships,funding from govt.,apprenticeship money...these steps must focus on more economically vulnerable section of society
You haven’t heard Ai is replacing every then?
Who are You, the needy...!? The white Anglo - Saxon race does not know You...
why waste money on wasters ? Carefully screen the populace for the very highest IQs and fund them all the way into important jobs. Average intelligence , don't waste resources on these people
Never forget, kids: the tories don't want you to achieve anything. You are the grist in their mill.
Having lived in a student area ,i am not surprised they have money problems . what they throw away and waste is sickening , there is in most student areas people who search the bins on a regular basis and make good money from what they throw away . Students from abroad work together to budget on food and manage much better . Remember students do no pay council tax and have time to do part time jobs ,if they didn't get drunk so often and party all night they would fair better ,but Brits a re spoilt with few exceptions
We need better stats really to know how serious this problem is. Having also rented in a very studenty area I can second your comment about the waste in the streets situation. High in volume, low in hygiene, low in consideration and very poor recycling efforts. I also agree that overseas students are incredibly organised at running their affairs for such young adults based on my interactions with them. This could be a legitimate problem though. I know that students have always been hard up for cash. It's typical and it's also always been considered part of the learning experience to learn that self-sufficiency is hard work. It's difficult to say whether this is more snowflake, GenZ softness or given the state of the country, stands to reason that higher education may have crossed over the line into being unaffordable, unmanageable and unfeasible like almost everything else. This is what reporters need to clarify because when people who have paid their dues and earned the right to a decent home for themselves and their families are experiences the same poverty as students, people are going to show more sympathy to the non-students.
No so few exceptions from working class . My grandson didn't do the stupid stuff and managed his finance. Still no job tho. It so competitive out there. And it the swaggering confident spoiled brats that are trained in interview techniques that get the job. This is why we got useless people in high positions.
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Pretty sure Universities are Mixed Rich & Poor , why don’t you help each other , Kepasa Sukasa ,
Young adults physically and mentally fit all you need to do is get extra jobs. Parents should not support them.
Part time jobs don’t cut it anymore. Heck full time jobs don’t either.
No time for these starving university students to be partying.
If you can't afford university, don't go? There's a massive skills shortage on jobs that don't require university... By far university isn't your only option.
That's like saying if you can't afford school lunch then don't go. People want to better themselves, what is wrong with that? Many jobs simply don't pay enough and are unsustainable long term. Hence people go to uni, so that they will have more options later on in life.
University should be a universal experience. Govt needs to step in
@@petrus_red Especially as they forced us to go to school for all those years. What was the point of it all if you can't go to uni and get the qualifications you need to have the career you want?
yeah that's right, students should stop complaining right, at least they have freedom and democracy right...LOL you are so funny.
@lee9650 Yeah no, that's a false equivalency. It's nothing like saying don't go to school if you can't afford lunch. No one is talking about groceries.
Perhaps more importantly schooling is compulsory because it teaches you how to be an employee and a member of society. Whether you realise it or not, you use the things you are taught in school throughout day to day life. University is not.
Everyone would like to be in a better position than they're in. Everyone, it's a key function of social animals that the individuals should always be striving to better their position. I'd like to be richer than Bezos but that doesn't mean I'm entitled to it in any way. Bettering ones position is about hard work, means and talent.
It is fraudulent to suggest that the only means for someone to better their position is by going to university. Here are some ONS figures to help you with the facts.
• 50% of UK university graduates do not work in their field of study. HALF!
• Only 13% of graduates stay in the same job for more than 4 years.
• 59.9% of first year university students are mature students (21+).
• 57% of high school graduates do not go to university
Skills shortage jobs tend to pay better than their non-shortage counterparts. I suggest you actually take a look at the list. A list mine you that only exists because 46% of school leavers think they have to go to university to do a handful of courses, where half of undergraduates will never work in that field anyway.
How much paying "enough" is, seems a lot like how long is a piece of string. What I can tell you is that the median full-time income in the UK is £31K.
IT roles, trades, technician and STEM support roles, health and social care support roles and roles relating to the arts all feature predominantly on the list.
Many of the IT roles in question just require the relevant certs, which involve self study and passing a single paid test. Then you enter roles where the median income is £39K. There are also IT traineeships where you are paid to learn.
Technician and other STEM support roles likewise are entry level roles often doing on the job training or at most a 1 year college certificate. Their median income is £34K
Orchestral musicians are apparently in short supply. They make a median of 29K with only their instrument training required.
Trades have the benefit of paid apprenticeships so you are paid to learn. After finishing the apprenticeship, skilled registered tradesmen make between £66K - £90K median depending on the specific trade.
Business traineeships pay you to learn how to be a manager where the median income is £42K
There is nothing stopping someone who can not afford university as a school leaver, going out to work, saving up and returning to university if that's what they really want. Remember 59.9% of uni students are mature age now, so that's clearly what many people are doing.
You are not entitled to any position in life. You are not entitled to university. If you can not afford university, don't go. Look elsewhere for gainful employment.
Don't go to Uni unless it's Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, King's College.
So other universities in UK useless? Isn't it?
If you're poor you will struggle more at these unis. Being around the wealth at these unis will also be demoralising.
donations to food banks
I hope🇺🇦 Ukraine🇺🇦 was worth it 😂😂😂😂
Who are the thieving criminals who are charging a fortune for the student accommodation ?...... Answer : Chiselling, chancing scum. MY GOD, the corruption is worse than in Pakistan and Russia.
Hahaha congratulations hahahahah
Then get a job instead of studying
maybe reading for a degree in gender studies will solve all their problems. take advantage of all the diversity benefits that are not available to British white students.