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Anyway the point is according to a new research from YouthSight and the NUS has shown that students were drinking dramatically less than before, with sales of draught and packaged beer at unions across the country falling year-on-year for the past three years, while sales of coffee have gone up 11%. A further poll of 1,000 students found that the most useful services for students were now clubs and societies (60%), advice and support (50%) and coffee and café facilities (43%). Drinking so much at the rugby social (!) that you end up duct-taped to the statue of the university founders with your pubes and eyebrows shaved off was only a concern for 37% of students who classed pubs as being an essential service. This is in line with similar ONS figures which found the proportion of 16 to 24-year-olds who drink had fallen two-thirds between 2005 and 2014.Anyway anyway turns out ramping the student fees up to just absurd amounts means that the kids are actually taking their studies seriously now, so drinking is out and actual employment prospects post-university are in. Here's the NUS man Richard Brooks saying more or less that:"Ten or 15 years ago people went to university, obviously to learn something but also to make friends and have a good time." There is no friend-making, now. Students: stop making friends immediately. "A lot of policy-makers who I talk to think it's still like when they were at university but since the introduction of the £9,000 [€11,500] a year fees regime in 2012 students have become much more focused on employment prospects.On NOISEY: What I Learned Growing Up As A Very Serious Fan of The Darkness
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In a way this is deeply sad: that university is no longer hedonistic excess and tins in the shower and the aforementioned Countdown and waking up at 02:00. I think the most worried I got in the course of my undergraduate studies was the time the electricity went out and the petrol station where we topped the meter up was inexplicably closed, I mean it was the best time of my life, but then I mean afterwards it did take me circa four years to muster up any sort of viable job prospect out of it and I had some real periods of deep and hopeless misery after it as a result, and plus I had somehow made myself allergic to cider. So yeah maybe these modern students, with their 'let's not fuck this up like Joel did' attitude and their designs to make it in the world, maybe they do have a point. Good on you, students! Pot Noodles!@joelgolbyMore stuff from VICE re: students, drinking:Apparently British Students Now Hate Fun and Would Rather Play 'Rave Badminton' Than Drink PintsWhy UK Students Are Calling Bullshit on Universities for Not Living Up to Their Marketing HypeI Hung Out with Shia LaBeouf In A Lift in the Name of ArtOn MUNCHIES: Here's How Long You Could Survive if You Were Trapped in a Supermarket