Unless students and their reps are doing it, I generally despair at the habit of framing higher education policy deliberation through the optic of “when I was a student”.
But sometimes it’s personal.
I was a first in family and all that. We’d read up on the costs of university from a booklet from the library, and I saved up in my year out.
Inevitably, it wasn’t really enough. My parents helped and I got maintenance, but it wasn’t enough.
