Students

[cahill]

I was at Manchester airport in the week waiting at passport control. A plane had just landed from the Far East and was absolutely packed with students. The universities all had reps in arrivals to shepherd them for onward transport.

It's something we're good at, and without it Sheffield in particular would be an immeasurably worse place. Our leaders have been guilty of inward and backward looking habits, and the universities and the people they bring here are our best connection to the world and the future. The development at the bottom of Bramall Lane is that fact writ large.

But moreover, it can't just be me who sees these kids arrive from the other side of the world and admire their bravery and ambition? What were you lot doing at 18 years old?

I was a brylcream boy at 17

 

[robbiez666]

What the club should be doing is encouraging as many students as possible to come and watch us.

 

[prince albert]

I was a brylcream boy at 17

i was working on the coalface...

 

[grafikhaus]

What the club should be doing is encouraging as many students as possible to come and watch us.

Absolutely. As New Era Square goes up at the end of Bramall Lane - a development that includes 700 apartments - it would be criminal not to tie in some concessionary ticket deals for the new occupants.

 

[Razor1967]

i was working on the coalface...

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar

 

[robbiez666]

Both clubs, I believe, offer cheap tickets on certain games. Whilst we're obviously in a lower league, we have the distinct advantage when it comes to prices. We should be making a huge effort to steer many our way.

 

[Tyler Durden]

But labour councillors who have driven this city backwards can rest assured they will be re elected to keep doing it wrong whilst trying to create a socialist state of South Yorkshire.

The only thing worth its salt in Sheffield is its city center football club.

Not true, it's a fine city and I wouldn't call anywhere else 'home'.

 

[Tyler Durden]

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar

Yeah well don't forget it's me who put you where you are now, and I could put you back down too

 

[Esablade]

The people who will moan that Scarborough will have bought it will be the same ones who complained that a football club should concentrate on football and shouldn't be building anything like a hotel, for example.

The FC neither has the money or borrowing power to be able to buy land I would guess.

That will be why McCabe indebted the the club with debt to build the hotel..then generously spunked the West Ham money paying up the loan on said hotel....the rest is history as they say...

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Not true, it's a fine city and I wouldn't call anywhere else 'home'.

Those retention rates I quoted above, also suggest Sheffield has a bit more appeal than just The Blades.

 

[vorpal blade]

Sitwell, your backache might have proved terminal if it weren't for a few ex-students giving you a hand.....

 

[Tyler Durden]

Those retention rates I quoted above, also suggest Sheffield has a bit more appeal than just The Blades.

Exactly, I've worked with people from all over Britain, Europe and beyond, and they all love this place. They tell me that this is where their life is and they've made Sheffield their home.
Only a couple of weeks ago, me and TomJonesBlade we're chatting to two Americans after the Southend match who were just passing through. They said they loved this place and the locals and were sad to be only spending a couple of days here.

The only folk who I've ever heard talk Sheffield down are the natives.

 

[1973Blade]

Yeah well don't forget it's me who put you where you are now, and I could put you back down too

Don't, don't you want me?

 

[sitwell]

They will all be claiming financial persecution and poverty as they buy their 6th jug of Mandarin Mojito at Vodka Revs on Tuesday night.

 

[itsinyerblood]

I used to manage a nightclub in Sheffield. Naturally I'd speak to other nightclub managers about the local economy. We all agreed the same, students were an important part of our targeted market. Taxi drivers felt exactly the same. For nightclubs and taxi firms, students represented an economic factor akin to what it must be like for a business that exists at a seaside resort. When students leave the city for approximately 3 months of the year the income drops like a lead weight and clubs, taxis, and probably quite a few other businesses can't wait for students to return to boost the local economy.

 

[Harry's Game]

Don't the Chinese students do an "Intensive course?" I was told they cram the three year studies into two by staying on through the summer.

 

[FlamingLip]

Fck the students off out of Sheffield and locals really will have a genuine reason to whinge. Universities are key to all major cities and now big towns. If the student intake proportion from further afield is increasing than that's due to fee policy. But that's a different gripe.

Embrace it. Sheff still rock despite it's not-as-glossy-as-Leeds image.

 

[blade too long]

my daughters a receptionist at one of the student accommodations off london road and this week end is check in weekends
so its busier than usual
without all the buildings to accommodate our 2 universities Sheffield would probably still be stuck in the seventies like Rotherham is
70 per cent of all new buildings are either uni buildings or student flats

theres only one lively area in the city at nights , west street and thats totally down to students
the money that comes into Sheffield from students must be hundreds of millions

not to mention our gates are helped by visiting students who are lured down to the Lane

 

[DiggerBlade]

Without them.
This city would be Third World.
Love it, but we're so far behind many other cities that it's
now down to the students and the money they bring in that keeps us
just above the likes of Rotherham/Doncaster/Barnsley.

That's a big reason why the Chinese investment is a major key to the future of our city.

100% agree with that.

With the China Town in our doorstep we could be seeing more students attracted to BDTBL to swell the coffers.

 

[Robby Blade]

Do you know that for a fact or is it a myth put about by us smug Sheffielders because Ive been told the same thing by Geordies about Newcastle.

They have been saying this about Sheffield for years.

Strange that Sheffield isn't the Powerhouse that it should be then. Maybe all these students stay here cos they want to work in call centres or live off benefits.

 

[Seanshoreham]

Whilst it's a fact that students are vital to our economy spare a thought for my mate who lives in a student area (Broomhill) and is woken up in the early hours on a regular basis not good when you've got young kids
He gets abuse (from some) when he tries to reason with them

 

[itsinyerblood]

One point worth identifying, I live in an apartment block comprising residents and students. Many of the students happen to be Chinese, and those I've met all have impeccable manners and seem to have avoided the unlikable bravado that is sometimes found in British youth. They seem to adopt a sensibility of respect and decency that makes my apartment block a nice place to live.

 

[Tyler Durden]

I wish the students who came to Sheffield were exclusively foreign to be honest. They're hardworking and civilised.

It's the cunts from elsewhere in England who think that higher education is about blowing your loan on booze and acting like a prick because mummy and daddy can't see you misbehaving. Oh and SPEAKING REALLY FUCKING LOUDLY AT ALL TIMES COS EVERYTHING YOU SAY IS LIKE, SOO EPIC.

 

[Ecco1889]

You are awful.
But I like you.

 

[vorpal blade]

Don't the Chinese students do an "Intensive course?" I was told they cram the three year studies into two by staying on through the summer.

Not usually, I've heard of it at Liverpool University but not at either University in Sheffield. In fact they often squeeze another year's fees out of them for a 'foundation course' in English - so thats 4 year's fees.

Its a potential problem in Liverpool where they have an agreement that graduates from a Shanghai University with whom they have a twinning arrangement can do a 2 year degree - its a problem because they have expanded so rapidly that they have had to press all sorts of rooms into service as lecture theatres (dining halls and the like). But its great news for the vice Chancellor and her salary (£339K/annum). btw Sheffield University's Vice Chancellor was on £370K/year after he got a £105K pay rise in the summer of 2013....the same year I lost my job at the same institution when I was interviewed for my old job....I think I earned about £13K that year.

So there is only one reason for the influx of foreign students and thats cash for the bosses BUT personally I love seeing them around, I do think they are very brave and I think we have a lot to learn from them......principally Mandarin.

 

[sitwell]

Not usually, I've heard of it at Liverpool University but not at either University in Sheffield. In fact they often squeeze another year's fees out of them for a 'foundation course' in English - so thats 4 year's fees.

Its a potential problem in Liverpool where they have an agreement that graduates from a Shanghai University with whom they have a twinning arrangement can do a 2 year degree - its a problem because they have expanded so rapidly that they have had to press all sorts of rooms into service as lecture theatres (dining halls and the like). But its great news for the vice Chancellor and her salary (£339K/annum). btw Sheffield University's Vice Chancellor was on £370K/year after he got a £105K pay rise in the summer of 2013....the same year I lost my job at the same institution when I was interviewed for my old job....I think I earned about £13K that year.

So there is only one reason for the influx of foreign students and thats cash for the bosses BUT personally I love seeing them around, I do think they are very brave and I think we have a lot to learn from them......principally Mandarin.

The most welcome foreigners in the Uk for me ,polite ,considerate and intelligent ,but there is one thing they can learn from us ,how to drive ,they are simply an accident waiting to happen on the roads.

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

What the club should be doing is encouraging as many students as possible to come and watch us.

Haven't they already tried that!?

 

[Leonardo Green]

Ah, let's chuck 60 odd thousand people out of the city. That'll do the local economy wonders.

 

[Kenilworth]

Don't, don't you want me?

You know I don't believe you when you say that you won't see me



Twat

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Piss off ,gridlocking the city when there was an extra pint to be had in the Lion and an Pig defeat to wallow in at home after. So many bewildered parents as Tabatha and Benadict carried their duvets in while fat Blokes wearing red and white striped shirts walked past gurning. Good job we won.

Let me guess...

You've never been to University or had academic ability and think everyone who has is "privileged" and it makes you feel uncomfortable because basically you're thick?