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A full grant, unemployment benefit during the holidays (with no interviews or any expectation that you would find a job), train and accommodation expenses for interviews paid in full..... it really was a different world. Only about 4 or 5% of people going to University for one thing.
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Yup - I got about 80% of a full grant in the 1970s - some people only got a percentage of the full grant, the remainder was to be made up from Mummy and Daddy depending on their income ...
and you could leave your bike outside the papershop unlocked overnight and it would still be there in the morning and you try telling the young these days ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/05/students-low-pain-pecking-order