Impact and Platform’s investigation, Project Winter, has put the spotlight on the massive financial hardships experienced by Nottingham students as the cost of living crisis…
View More Project Winter: The blame game – Whose job is it to help students?
As students struggle with the cost of living, UK universities are making huge profits with a record number of students enrolling. Will Hugall explores the…
View More NTU and NTSU discuss support available for students amidst cost of living crisis
Laura Scaife, Adam Eaton and Will Hugall explore the “absolutely unworkable” maintenance loans and one student group’s petition to change it. Student money saving organisation,…
View More Save the Student call for government to help save students from financial “turmoil”
As a recent University of Nottingham Students’ Union survey found nearly half of students are struggling with their finances, Anna Boyne asks if their university…
View More Drowning their sorrows… if they can afford it
Since its launch in 2006, Seeking Arrangements has garnered over 20 million users worldwide. Sugar daddies (and mummies) pay a subscription fee for their accounts…
View More One post, 30 replies: Find out what happened when we used Seeking Arrangements
A student’s life is seen as carefree and packed with spare time. But now many of them spend all that free time working rather than…
View More The Student Trap: Skipping lectures to go to work to afford university – but at what cost?
Through the power of the internet, swapping sexual favours for cash has never been easier. But is selling explicit pictures online the ideal way of…
View More Funding futures: The rise in student sex work
As food prices soar and student loans stagnate, many students simply cannot afford to eat. “Food is the easiest thing to cut out”, says James,…
View More From food banks to eating leftovers: How Nottingham students survive food insecurity
When Maisie Edmond’s student house had the TV aerial stolen, she thought the landlord would fix it. When she moved in and a fence panel…
View More From stolen aerials to bed bugs and rat infestations: the life of a student and their housing
The recent cost of living crisis has not done anyone any favours. Students have been particularly affected by this as the cold months took over,…
View More Fewer nights out and horror accommodation stories: We want to hear how the cost of living crisis is affecting your student experience for #ProjectWinter