Introduction
Since ancient times, especially in recent years the number of students who prefer to complete their undergraduate degree or postgraduate degree outside their country specifically States that have a huge reputation of their strong and excellent universities,
for example, America and Britain, but most of these students do not have efficient financial support to end their studies we see them face many of the financial problems.
One of the most important problems is the one related to the cost of the expensive living in Britain, we note these students looking for cheap and un secure accommodation just for saving for their school expenses, as well as using cheaper methods of transportation and some times it could take up to twice the distance to reach their universities for the same goal, savings for tuition fees. For that most students rely on their parents financially and some are sponsor by their governments as a scholarships, others do not have any kind of support and they are financially dependent on, in this case the students have to work in a part-time jobs so they will be able to pay for all their finances.
For all this many studies have been done to obtain convenient solutions for students to complete their university without financial problems in spite of all this, it has not conducted a study involving pre-sessional students at London Metropolitan University, it is useful to discover the problems facing them and to find out what can be done to help these students.
Aims
The aim of the survey is to investigate the financial problems faced by pre-sessional Students at London Metropolitan University related to the cost of living for example, which type of accommodation they prefer, are they supported by their parents or sponsored by their governments. An additional aim is to know whether those students are Looking for another source of income to help them in their life such as working in a part time jobs.
Method
The sample size was 12. We have been taken to a big room full of pre-sessional student at London Metropolitan University, our aim was to trial the survey we have done. There were many students of different nationalities, different gender, different ages and different type of attendance(Full-time, Part-time) and we asked them to fill in the survey that seeks information about their financial situation and any effect it has had during their studies.
As the above pie chart clearly shows, shared accommodation is preferred by half of the students, whilst the second preferred choice is accommodation owned by parents/ partner/ housemate with quarter of the students. Single rental accommodation is the lowest priority with only 8% of the students, while the rest of the students go for halls of residents.
