It’s been a while and we have busy behind the scenes at wealthystudent!

With a long discussion and seeing how everything is working we are deciding to scale down everything onto one main site (wealthystudent.co.uk) - we do currently have four sites - the banking, savings and phones site.

The main reason for this is it should be much easier to use and everything will be in one place. There is also going to be change in the way the website is set up. The menu bar is going to be going someplace different and it should look pretty sweet!

We have also made a MAJOR decision to give the book we are writing away for FREE on the website. That’s a free e-book version for everyone. This book is going to change the way students think about money and their University experience. We believe everyone should read it for free.

We are hoping that people take the book seriously and don’t treat it like a free piece of junk. I think we’ll have to play some mysterious trick to make everyone think they paid good money for it but they really got it for free.

The book will be out by the end of August and available on Amazon.

That reminds me…keep entering the competition so that you can get your advice in this book! Not enough entries so far!

Click here to enter the competition

I have a nice title for the book that has come in the competition ‘The Wealthy Student Handbook’ - providing a wealth of knowledge for the student community.

It’s going to be tough to be it - but you can try here.

With this blog I am going to get into some meatier subject matter to get my real views on things out there.

This week: Where does all the money really go?

I am talking about taxes and what the general public pays. Of course we pay taxes to maintain the services - police, army, hospitals and those things, but is every single pound and penny going to good places?

I personally don’t think it is.

There is so much waste of money in our society and our government has to take the blame here. I know if every penny was spent properly students wouldn’t have top up fees and being slammed with 4.8% interest.

We need to fight the student corner but we also need to fight our own corner as a British citizens. Where is every single pound of our money going? All we seem to have found out lately is that MP’s can now claim thousands on a new kitchen for their second home.

In Scotland students don’t have the same fees as us. Why not here?

We need answers and in our quest to help students, we’ll also be trying to get these answers.

Are you with us?

Well ladies and gents the competition is up, it’s been there for 2 days and I haven’t had one entry yet! What’s going on?

You get a free professional CV (or voucher for when you need it if you win), plus you could win some cash.

Now, if you’re a student - read this and see if you don’t go mad.

I officially think this government is crazy. How can Bill Rammell, the ‘higher education minister’ dare to say…

“There is no real rate of interest. The student only repays, in real terms, what they have borrowed.”

“This is in contrast to the policy of the Conservative party which is that students should pay a real rate of interest.”

What is this conservative ‘real rate of interest’? Maybe it is something more manageable like 2%

Most of us (like me) are going to be graduating with £15,000 debt, so that’s £720 in interest a year which will compound unless I am earning over £22,000.

This is the same for everyone.

Is it fair? NOOOOOO, it’s not fair.

The government are clearly making money off us and it’s about time we did something about it, something more than Facebook petitions.

I have set up a new forum - HERE - it’s the bottom thread - this will discuss what we are going to do about it.

We will get something done.

GET INVOLVED.