Dunno about you, but if I was in the content business and in the UK, I'd be trolling some of the colleges right about now...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/st...324268,00.html
Delays in loan payments pushing undergraduates into financial hardship
Lee Glendinning
Monday October 11, 2004
The Guardian
Katie and Faye hitch their wet T-shirts up around their shoulder blades, tying them into a knot at the chest.The two second year university students do not complain when bar staff cover them in whipped cream, and instead begin gyrating to the Britney Spears number I'm A Slave 4 U.
They need the £50 on offer to the winner of the wet T-shirt competition, as neither has received their student loans which were due in the first week of term.
The girls say they are starting to struggle financially, along with hundreds of others at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, who are still waiting.
The Student Loans Company had informed universities that there would be a backlog in loans this year due to the implementation of a new £300m computer system, but what is happening in Aberystwyth is the first indication of how seriously the effects may be felt.
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