Student budget

You'd need an amazingly well paid job to be the richest student at UCL - a place where 1st year undergrads talk loudly on their phones in the library... to their cleaner; or leave a £2000 watch at a PC terminal; or spend £90 a week on getting beauty treatments; etc*.

*all the while moaning about being "like totally skint at the mo".

Anyone remember when higher education was truly inclusive?

Never?

A first year undergrad at UCL once came into a tutorial where I was present with a 5,000 quid Hermes bag, offset nicely with an essay half-inched off the internet. Which, incidentally, if she'd bothered to pay for she would have got away with.