A. Tuition fee is 10,000 for a 2 year HNC/HND course (it could be lower by 2500 if you’ve already one semester in the Phils… but 7500 is still no pocket change).

B. Working hours allowed effective July 4, 2011 is ONLY 10 hours per week and don’t anybody say that you can get more hours because every hour you work is being monitored by the UKBA through your National Insurance payment which is automatically deducted from the salary your receiving. So if you work like a horse and take in 15 or 40 more hours, ding ding ding…. the UKBA is on your trail.

C. Cash to cash employment is very scarce and frankly i haven’t even encountered it myself. Its the kind of work that they don’t report your hours and your salary to the government and they just pay you by the hour. But honestly, its hard enough to find legal work, where on earth will you find that kind of set up.

D. Cost of living: this is my honest to goodness calculation of life in the UK (and I live in a capital city)
ROOM OR SHARED ACCOMODATION – minimum of 120 maximum of 150 pounds per month
FOOD – i consider myself a light eater so id say 10 pounds per week so thats 40 per month and thats really strapping the belt.
BUS FARE – regardless on whether you live 10 steps away from school, you still have to spend for bus transportation and that will set you back for a good 1.30 – 1.50 per ride. If you’re a student, you can get a buss pass which will cost 40 pounds per month and that will take you anywhere with in the city bounds and unlimited ride as well.
TUITION – 10,000 or 7,500 for the whole course.
WORKING CONDITION and PAY – this is the catch, 10 hours per week at minimum of 6.20 per hour (and thats not even tax deducted yet) will fetch you 62 per 10 hours. Saturdays and sundays are included in your 10 hours. the exception will only be during the holidays which you don’t get every month and its not even a month long. So given this 62 per week x 4 weeks in a month = 248 per month subtract this from the above expenses and you don’t really need a calculator to figure it out.

E. UKBA – the very time you exceed your hours and not report to your school, the immigration will be on your case. Others may say they won’t mind you because others have done it before you and they’re still around, but would you really take that risk? Do you feel comfortable working (illegally) and knowing that one day while your washing dishes, or hovering the carpet or ironing clothes, UKBA men will come barging in to your work place and arrest you on the spot and deport you with nothing but the shirt on your back? Ask yourself that!

F. POST STUDY WORK VISA is already abolished so say goodbye to your hopes of working mad to pay off your debts.

G. SPONSORSHIP – Some will say that as soon as they get here, they will find somebody who can hire them and sponsor them for employment and change their student visa to working visa…. FORGET it!! thats not gonna happen to ALL if not MOST of you. SO not unless you’re assured of such, don’t rely on it.

Again, let me REITERATE I’m not discouraging you folks. Although my words may say otherwise but there’s really no other way to say it. If you think you wanna take the chance and strike it rich then by all means do so.. not all of us share the same fate so you might be the lucky exception. These are just mere hard and terrible facts which all if not most Pinoys with student visas are facing. I wont be the least bit surprised if you’ll be on the next plane back to the Philippines because I’ve met some whose stayed for a year and theres even one who stayed for a week. Still others have gone to London and went into hiding. The choice is yours, the facts are laid down before you.

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Vanessa was born on Nov. 9, 1980 to Helen Berecero, a native of Leyte, and Vince Minnillo, who’s of Irish/Italian American descent, at Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Pampanga. Vince, who was a U.S. Air Force air crew member, is now retired and works as a courier for Federal Express.
Her parents met in 1973 and married a year later. “(Helen) was going to cosmetology school,” Vince recalls. “When I got off work, I saw her walking home every day. I stopped to talk to her one time. I conned her into riding my motorcycle.”

As you can see, the dad says that he saw the mom walking home everyday; therefore, home is the Philippines for the mom.

After all the issues, personal and professional, about Willie, it still puzzles me how that twat is still on TV.

Thnaks!