{"id":1491,"date":"2011-07-29T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.80\/livingwithkids.co.uk\/student-migration\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:06:15","slug":"student-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/student-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"This is traditionally the time of year when student teenagers return to the nest\u00a0 like migrating summer birds, lugging laundry, debts and ever more unsuitable girl and boyfriends with them, but looking around my friends with older children I think that traditional student life is becoming as endangered as the white rhino. What used to be little more of a pit stop between the end of term and the start of their summer adventure is turning into a summer at home en famille.\n\nFewer and fewer students are able to afford the fabulous summer or gap year trips which Alex Garland brought so beautifully to life in The Beach, instead they are having to hunker down in their old bedrooms for most of the summer or, horror, join the rest of the family on holiday!\n\nAnd there is no escape once they have graduated as proper jobs give way to \u201cinternships\u201d aka slave labour for those who can afford to live without wages.\nYesterday I overheard a lovely, rather Sloaney girl, sitting on the bus with her mother angling for a bigger allowance as she explained just how long she would have to spend chasing internships before she got a sniff of a proper job. Her mother\u2019s face was a picture of despair, sympathy, and \u201cohmigod how are we going to afford this?\u2019.\nToday\u2019s Telegraph underlines the crises with a report that 45 graduates are chasing every graduate vacancy. I thought it was tough getting a job on a local paper when I left college\u00a0 but I don\u2019t think the ratio\u2019s were anything like as high as they are today to get any kind of job. And certainly once we had finished our journalism training,as long as we weren\u2019t picky (I wasn\u2019t!) we were almost guaranteed a job eventually.\nToday I know of recent graduates hopping from one newspaper or magazine to another\u00a0 for years without any expectation of money other than expenses. It\u2019s great experience but it is unfair, especially on those who can\u2019t afford the luxury of working for free, to expect people to live on bylines while they chase their dream.\n\n<strong>Let me know whether your student children have returned home for good and how you feel about it &#8211; as warm as a Wall\u2019s sausage ad or as grumpy as Victor Meldrew?<\/strong>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3399ff;\">Amanda<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Deal of the Day: <\/span>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/partner\/easyJetHolidays.aspx?t=lwk\" target=\"_blank\">Easyjet<\/a> are offering a hundred holidays for \u00a3100 per person! Can it be true? Let me know how you get on.\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Scary Statistic of the Day:<\/span>\n\nAccording to research from moneysupermarket.com students are being overcharged by an average of \u00a3500 each on their student loans","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is traditionally the time of year when student teenagers return to the nest\u00a0 like migrating summer birds, lugging laundry, debts and ever more unsuitable girl and boyfriends with them, but looking around my friends with older children I think that traditional student life is becoming as endangered as the white rhino. 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