My University Salad Days... When the Teaching Was Free

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There is something bittersweet when scanning your pay slip each month, hoping against hope for a tax error in your favour, and alighting on the Pounds 100 paid to the Student Loans Company.

It's a periodic reminder of your salad days. A glorious time when you get your first taste of independence, read books well beyond your intellectual grasp and, philosophy students will recognise, develop a vitamin D deficiency from there being no need to see daylight for days on end.

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My University Salad Days... When the Teaching Was Free

But it's also fiercely depressing. Precisely what did I spend almost Pounds 9,000 on during three years on Merseyside when there is not one piece of Beatles memorabilia to show for it? Well, it ...

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