The annual brain drain from Abingdon has just happened with some of Abingdon’s brightest going

to Aberdeen
to Abertay
to Aberystwyth
to Aston
to Bangor
to Bath
to Belfast
to Birmingham
to Bolton
to Bournemouth
to Bradford
to Brighton
to Bristol
to Brunel
to Buckingham
to Cambridge
to Canterbury
to Cardiff
to Carlisle
to Cheltenham
to Chester
to Colchester
to Coventry
to Cranfield
to Derby
to Dundee
to Durham
to Edinburgh
to Exeter
to Glasgow
to Guildford
to Hatfield
to Huddersfield
to Hull
to Inverness
to Keele
to Lampeter
to Lancaster
to Leeds
to Leicester
to Lincoln
to Liverpool
to London
to Loughborough
to Luton
to Manchester
to Milton Keynes
to Newcastle
to Newport
to Northampton
to Norwich
to Nottingham
to Oxford
to Paisley
to Plymouth
to Pontypridd
to Portsmouth
to Preston
to Reading
to Salford
to Sheffield
to Slough
to Southampton
to St.Andrews
to Staffordshire
to Stirling
to Sunderland
to Swansea
to Teesside
to Ulster
to Warwick
to Winchester
to Wolverhampton
to Worcester
to York

and possibly further field. This year for the first time they are having to pay £3,000 a year University tuition fees. Last year it was £1,000.

And here is one of the many young Abingdonians looking out of the bedroom window from the University Hall of Residence for the first time. Freshers often get into Halls, but then have to find their own accomodation in the following years.