{"id":83271,"date":"2025-08-20T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83271\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:37:09","slug":"uk-students-are-you-working-a-full-time-job-while-studying-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83271\/","title":{"rendered":"UK students: are you working a full-time job while studying? | Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A report released last week from the Higher Education Policy Institute found that students in the UK today need to work more than 20 hours a week to meet a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hepi.ac.uk\/2025\/08\/12\/a-minimum-income-standard-for-students-2\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cbasic standard of living\u201d<\/a>. A similar study carried out last year by the same organisation found a record <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hepi.ac.uk\/2024\/06\/13\/has-the-student-experience-bifurcated-into-two-nations\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">56% of full-time undergraduates had paid employment<\/a> while studying, with many working and studying an average 56-hours a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">This has come amid a rise in the cost of living, particularly housing, and experts have warned that those juggling the heavy combined workload are more at risk of dropping out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Are you a full-time student who also works a full-time job or a significant amount of hours? Why do you need to do this? What has been the impact of this on your studies and your own physical and mental health?<\/p>\n<p>Share your experience<\/p>\n<p>You can tell us what it&#8217;s like studying and working at the same time by filling in the form below.<\/p>\n<p>Your responses, which can be anonymous, are secure as the form is encrypted and only the Guardian has access to your contributions. We will only use the data you provide us for the purpose of the feature and we will delete any personal data when we no longer require it for this purpose. For true anonymity please use our <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/securedrop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SecureDrop<\/a> service instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If you\u2019re having trouble using the form click <a href=\"https:\/\/guardiannewsandmedia.formstack.com\/forms\/students_working_a_full_time_job\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Read terms of service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/terms-of-service\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and privacy policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A report released last week from the Higher Education Policy Institute found that students in the UK today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-83271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}