There has been some speculation recently that stay-at-home students living with parent(s), have a second class university experience.

With tuition fees set to rise in 2012, will students choose to study at local universities to save money? as both students and parents start to feel the "Higher Education Pinch"?

Last year, more that 310,000 students opted to study at local universities while living at home, according to the government's Higher Education Statistics Agency http://www.hesa.ac.uk/. A survey by HSBC in July found more than a quarter of parents plan to ask their children to live at home during the university years to help keep costs down.

Studying away from home, is this a great escape for some students? Or is this the true meaning of university life? Will students who live at home be as socially mobile as students living away? Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/448277.stm, then have your say!