EMA Bonus Question

Moses99p said:
Nuh uh, not in further education... A while back FE colleges were split from the councils, and now get funding from the Learning Skills Council instead... and to get free school meals there is another layer of bureaucracy that colleges CANNOT afford, they literally can't afford to pay staff to administer the free school meals, get the money back from the council, etc. It's a messed up system.

On top of that the food in college is provided by outside companies, which offer rubbish food for extortionate prices, 'cause when the FE colleges were split from the councils their funding got cut crazily and that meant they had to lay off loads of staff... and college employed kitchen staff weren't seen as essential, as outside companies would come in.

I was eligible from EMA back in tut day, and I didn't get free transport or free school meals at my secondary school...

Also, it's a FACT that kids from the most deprived families don't even get to spend their EMA, their parents basically make them go to school so they can get, in a sense, £30 per week extra benefits. It's truly shocking, I've seen kids that can't afford to eat at the college where I've just started as Vice President Welfare and Education on the student union exec... because their parents don't let them have their EMA to spend on food :|. So no, it doesn't just get spent on video games.

Basically you're wronger than a wrong thing in wrong land, to the best of my knowledge anyway.
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There were free meals in my college. I'm certain of it as two in my class claimed them.
 
Ah EMA... how I'm going to miss it next year.

About the 1 parents salary thing: yeah, a lot of people (inc. me) do that. I know quite a few off the top of my head from my year. One of them has a parent on £100k and he gets £30/week. A mate's parent sold his share in his company and got a couple of million pounds, lives in a £2m house, and he might be getting £30/week (either that or £20) next year. :eek:
 
blitz2163 said:
You mean youve never heard the classic corby insult of calling all kettering people sheep shaggers? I have no idea why it started as like you said theres not many over there
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Nope.
But a sunday lunch dinner with roast lamb is nice, but not summerish food, mmmm mint sauce.

~Slash
 
don't agree with it, but not sure if I would take it due to the way they hand it out, the teachers let everyone know who is on EMA, if I was receiving it I would be embarrassed and wouldn't want to be handed my EMA letter during registration!
 
inferno said:
don't agree with it, but not sure if I would take it due to the way they hand it out, the teachers let everyone know who is on EMA, if I was receiving it I would be embarrassed and wouldn't want to be handed my EMA letter during registration!
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Why would you be embarassed? No one I know is, and a lot of people who don't get it would like to be able to get it. :confused:
 
Tom|Nbk said:
Here we go.
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Sic said:
*yawn*
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Ever wonder why the same complaints about EMA come up in threads that mention it? I'll give you a clue; it is a stupid, poorly thought out scheme that is abused by a lot if not the majority of students (there are, of course, some exceptions) and is simply a way of bribing kids to stay in school and is paid for out of hard working tax payers wages who studied hard without EMA as the reward for study was to get a good job.

That's why threads like this are often full of old moaning tax payers like myself.

Seeing as this is a discussion board I am sure our views have an equally valid right to be aired the same as you money grabbing youngsters have the right to moan about us oldsters moaning about EMA :p
 
inferno said:
don't agree with it, but not sure if I would take it due to the way they hand it out, the teachers let everyone know who is on EMA, if I was receiving it I would be embarrassed and wouldn't want to be handed my EMA letter during registration!
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What is embarrassing about it? Your friends will know that the total income for your household is below an arbitrary value, what's the problem with that? I don't agree with the scheme, but it's there so you may as well make the most of it, I would have done if I had been able to.
 
Jotun said:
What is embarrassing about it? Your friends will know that the total income for your household is below an arbitrary value, what's the problem with that? I don't agree with the scheme, but it's there so you may as well make the most of it, I would have done if I had been able to.
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I am sure that in the right social circles it is very embarrassing to find our your parents earn less that 30K :rolleyes:

OMG imagine if your Bebo friends found out... :):p
 
opet616 said:
You don't even have to go every day to get bonuses at my college, they're pretty lenient.
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My college use lame ass student cards with RFID chips in them so if you don't swipe in the system logs in and no EMA/ALG unless you explain why. I miss half the lessons because I don't go in some days because I hate the time table system (too many free periods where I could be earning money from working).

I used to get EMA in 6th form. Now that was awesome. Spent it on alcohol and food.
 
Moses99p said:
What did you do in 6th form? You're not eligible to get ALG if you have a level three qualification already.... A levels or equivalent... how did you get it?
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Maybe I don't have a level three qualification hence why I am at college?
 
Failed 6th form. Did a AVCE course for 2 years. Came out with nothing. Now doing 3 A levels to get me into uni.
 
LordSplodge said:
Ever wonder why the same complaints about EMA come up in threads that mention it? I'll give you a clue;p
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I don't need it pointing out to me thank but no thanks I know all about the system.

The guy asked a simple question and yet again it's spiralled into another typical rant thread from the usual suspects.

It's boring. EMA is here to stay get over it.
 
Moses99p said:
Ah cool, makes sense. I'm cool like you and messed up sixth form, doing access next year.. sucks being 20 and not being at uni! D:
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It sucks being 20 and having to spend all week with 16 year olds. It's not as cool as it sounds lol.

Can't even get them drunk to take advantage of them :(
 
At Truro college. Into my second year now and it has gone pretty quickly. The only thing is most of the tutors don't treat me as a 20 year old (I look about 16, students have a hard time believing I am 20). So when they ask why I haven't bought a new book etc and I say "because I haven't got any money" apparently that's not a good enough excuse.

The funny thing is I am struggling to even pay for petrol at the moment so it's going to be hilarious when they ask why I haven't been to lessons.

The other day they rang my Dads emergency work mobile number up and asked where I was. He told them "Why are you asking me, phone him". Gotta love it lol.
 
EMA is only to stop everyone from a council estate going out and becoming a builder, or going to the army, or dossing about til they can go on the dole.

It has nothing to do with educational maintence, most of the people on EMA could quite comfortably afford to pay for college supplies. Because low income familys get extra money from the government anyway.

It's a disgrace if you ask me, my parents were poor as ****, right in the bracket where you couldn't get hardly anything from the government.
I had to work to pay for luxuries.
Yet kids now get £30 a week and £100 bonus' so they can go to starbucks and get coffee at lunch. Most of their parents rent a house for nothing and have a load of expendable income.

Silly, not a fan of EMA.

Course I suppose if I was offered it I would have had it.
 
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