Students are resorting to selling their possessions or signing up to “sugar daddy” websites to make money, as new research reveals more than a third of parents are struggling to support children financially at university due to rising living costs.
In a poll of more than 1,000 undergraduate students and 1,000 parents and guardians in March, 73% of parents and 66% of students said they were “extremely worried” by increased living costs, with students turning to cryptocurrency investments, paid clinical trials and sex work to make ends meet.
