University will be the best three years of your life, they say. Well I’m now entering my fifth year of study and that statement is mostly true, however, if there’s one thing I regret not doing in my earlier years, it’s starting up my own project.
Numerous studies have shown that young people are the demographic that benefits most from Britain’s membership of the EU, but again our voice didn’t mean anything; that is why Owen Smith must win the Labour Leadership contest so that we can have a Labour government in 2020 where the interests of the young will be looked after by a government in power.
A few weeks ago I met Jeremy Corbyn. In order to have the opportunity to meet the leader of the opposition I had to get up at six in the morning on Saturday and volunteer all day at the Yorkshire and Humber regional Labour conference – this was after working a 46 hour week.
Last year, 40 per cent of Sheffield Hallam University students were provided with a total £31 million worth of grants. This made Hallam the third most reliant university on maintenance grants in the country and it is one of the nation's largest higher education institutions.
As a postgraduate student at Sheffield Hallam University, I attended an event hosted by the union which broadcast the parliamentary debate live. Yet, despite there being over 30,000 students, I was dismayed to see theaudience in front of me numbered in the teens.