The gap between rich and poor students at Cambridge University was revealed for the first time yesterday.

No one knew this two days ago? I am sure the students have always been aware of who has money and who does not

I can't imagine living off 3 pounds a day, I could probably do 5 or so. 400 a week is inconceivable though.

/wait, is that including rent?
//currently doing around 6 a day, but suck it, I'm in London.

Still no cure for cancer...

Poor students are poorer than rich students?

I think I need to see the research to wrap my mind around this one.

Paris1127: Still no cure for cancer British Media...

FTFY

cksewell: The gap between rich and poor students at Cambridge University was revealed for the first time yesterday.

No one knew this two days ago? I am sure the students have always been aware of who has money and who does not

Everyone except the geniuses in the bureaucracy.

Please explain with pictures and charts because I don't get it.

It's okay!!! The new US Administration has created a plan to help these impoverished Cambridge students. Americans who make over 200K per year will be getting the bill in 2010.

Is that like the Ministry of No Shiat? or the Department of Obvious Affairs?

aww come on. the best things in life are free. can you buy the purr of a kitty sitting on your belly. i think not! how bout that fresh mountain air? can i get that at macy's? again,no! a rainbow? FREE!

These students are getting the shaft. A Cambridge education is not worth three pounds a day.

Oh, you mean the common people! (new window) Tut tut and all that rot!


/drtfa, I just wanted to link the video
//lets live like common people

Tigger: These students are getting the shaft. A Cambridge education is not worth three pounds a day.

au contraire. living on 3 dollars a day is an valuable education some are missing out on.

Sarcastica75: Please explain with pictures and charts because I don't get it.

Maybe this will help.

Thanks a lot Sarcastica75.

Now I'm hungry for poor people. Great.

an valuable education some are missing out on.


an valuable?

you went to Cambridge didn't you.

I thought poor kids were lousy students because they have no money.

Arugula. Thats right I said Arugula.

I hate poor kids. They smell and usually have 'issues', what with the beatings and molesting and all that.

Why dont they just stop being poor?

I was slightly less broke than this in college (but was still pretty damn broke) and was just happy to be going to college. I was also working. I hate to point out the obvious, but 10hrs/wk of part time work would probably triple their spending money.

If you can't afford it, you have no business going to school.

/the world needs ditch-diggers too...

There really is no place for the middle class in higher education in the U.S. The way financial aid works, they are pushed out.

Schools what people with either a lot of money or no money.

If your parents write one big check, schools are happy. They also like the very poor.

If you are a very poor student, the school knows that they qualify for far more financial aid. They get massive loans and all the work study programs.

Poor athletes are even better. School gives a poor kids with bad grades a couple grand to play football. In return, that kid might bring in 10-20K in grants and loans. That's why your middle class kid with a 3.0 is less recruited then a 2.0 dumbass athlete.

The day your kid is born, get a 529 plan started. Instead of wasting all that money on presents, ask the families to contribute to the plan.

As for the parents who say "my kid is smart, they'll get scholarships" it's already far too late. Grade inflation is so bad now, that across the board academic scholarships are more and more rare and worth less and less.

brewssuds: If you can't afford it, you have no business going to school.

/the world needs ditch-diggers too...

And plumbers. Who make a nice living, incidentally.

If poor students have less money than rich students, what do rich students have less of?

This study brought to you by Rick Romero University

Gyrfalcon: If poor students have less money than rich students, what do rich students have less of?

common sense?

Gyrfalcon: If poor students have less money than rich students, what do rich students have less of?

poor friends

It seems to me that even though it might be obvious that a gap exists, it is nevertheless worth something to know exactly how big that gap is.

Also, it was just a survey conducted by the student newspaper. Not a scientific study, as the headline would have you believe.

Bob's their uncle, too, I guess.

So, these researchers? What kind of students where they again?

I think we know how they can solve that problem (new window).

/Then release the vultures

Gyrfalcon: If poor students have less money than rich students, what do rich students have less of?

Melanin.

Well then they shouldnt have been born farking poor then!


/got nuthin

UseTheForksLuke,

Mean life satisfaction vs the GDP per capita in 2003 on 2000 based PPP dollars, referencing some sort of non-sequential age index?

That is the most wonderful and confusing piece of research I have seen. I am assuming you have to read the entire 10 or 15 pages to really understand it?

/And since the article seems to be talking about pocket money. You are gong to college and have something passes for food and shelter, suck it up, this is your opportunity middle/lower class.

It's easier to get through hard times with money than it is to get through easy times with no money...no wait, it's easier to go through money during hard times than it is to go through money during easy times. Well, whatever.

It sucks being poor.

Maybe they should write letters to their bank managers:

Darling Fascist Bully-Boy

Give me some more money, you bastard.

May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman.

They won't publish my comment....bummer.

All i had to say was that if they were smarter, they wouldn't dumpster dive....cause they could get sick that way...if they were smart they'd sell some oregano to those rich kids.

That's outrageous! £2.87 for a pint of beer!

Why can't they buy a six-pack at the grocery store?

BlorfMaster

You forgot to mention their smelly-ass cars!

So someone pulled something out of their arse.

i was living of 3 pounds a day at keele until it was pub time!

In the USA, you want to be either really rich or really poor.

The middle class gets to pay for both.

What an acid trip might look like...

studebaker hoch: In the USA, you want to be either really rich or really poor.

The middle class gets to pay for both.

Nice.

At least the rich people benefit society, though...

billybobtoo: a rainbow? FREE!

I' color blind, you bastard.

What was the purpose of this article? It's maybe 500 words and says that some university students are poor.

This is below even twitter standards, much less a publication.