Skywave, thank you for that excellent post. To fill in the gaps, what would you assess as your accommodation and other incidental costs during your training? If, as I assume, you lived at home during this training, perhaps you can give some kind of estimate of the kind of costs some of our wannabes would incur.
The reason I ask is that, in some of the integrated or structured modular schools, accommodation is part of the price (yes, I know it's not at Oxford!), so it's reasonable to include it when making a comparison.
Scroggs