Yep! Here we go again, im going to write an update on the injustices of being a student, sorry postgraduate student (yes im a snob) in the UK. Today i have been looking at funding for my PhD and theres is absolutely nothing available for the average PG Student. One of my friends who recently applied for a hardship grant was told that the only way he would be able to obtain one was if he was earning over £12,000. I dont even want to go into why that annoys me. During my undergraduate years money was thrown at me left right and centre, with the student loans, hardship funds and overdrafts. So im now shocked to find that there is nothing, absolutely nothing out there for postgraduates.

I remember reading the headlines of a local newspaper last year that compared the 'luxurious' campus accommodation at Essex with the terrible army barracks that exist a few miles down the road (insert two pictures: one of the newly built quays with a stylish Italian student drinking a latte-mocha-choca-chino-winno, smiling into the camera and a squaddies shared accommodation with a turd on the floor...oh and the headline 'Students Luxurious Accommodation Whilst Our Boys Live In Shite'). What struck me the most was that this is just not true, you can come marvel at the 14 room flats in the towers here at Essex any time you like but more ironically, surely with well educated people there is no need for an army let alone shit accommodation to house them in. Im not going to say im a neo hippie pacifist but a diplomatic response to war is far better than sending the boys in who will eventually kill thousands and cause more pollution than 10,000 live earth gigs. But the main point here is that millions are pumped into defence when the truth is it should be put elsewhere: education.