Should Brookes students be allowed to have cars?
From:
Julia Gasper
Date:
Aug 10 06:50 UTC
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I don't know what Jock means about "the private landlords who make so much out
of the lucrative student market." Only yesterday a foreign student was
complaining to me that Brookes charges him £664 per month merely for a room,
and then has the cheek to charge another £2.50 per week for internet access! No
private landlord would dare to charge anything like so much. I meet loads of
students, British and otherwise, who tell me that they are keen to go and live
in private accommodation, ideally a house-share, and one reason is that it
saves them so much money. My own son and his friends are among them, so don't
tell me about "surveys after surveys".
As for students having cars, this has been regularly banned by many
universities up and down the country over the past thirty-five years at least.
Only the very richest students can afford a car, and so to complain that they
are being treated like second-class citizens is rather a stretch of the
imagination.
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