{"id":4483,"date":"2010-02-11T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/02\/11\/flying-the-nest-and-taking-dad-with-you\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:29:50","slug":"flying-the-nest-and-taking-dad-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/11\/flying-the-nest-and-taking-dad-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying the nest – and taking Dad with you"},"content":{"rendered":"
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University of Leicester Sociology student brings her father to university<\/h3>\n
\"\"WHILE most students flee to University to escape their parents \u2013 one Leicester student has flouted the tradition by taking her father along with her.<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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Sociology student Anuya Pai, 21, and her father have lived in adjoining rooms in University Halls of Residence for the past three years. <\/div>\n

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Anuya\u2019s father, Dr Anand Pai, has suspended his medical career to accompany his daughter, who is a wheelchair user, to the University as her full-time support.\u00a0 <\/div>\n

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Anuya\u2019s parents originate from Mangalore in South India, but Anuya has lived in England all her life.\u00a0 <\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u201cI am happy to be here with Anuya as she pursues her education,\u201d dad Anand said. <\/div>\n

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\u201cI know how important this is to her and I have always been willing to provide whatever support is necessary in order for my daughter to achieve her ambitions in life.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Whilst Anuya is in her lectures, Anand runs errands for her, such as fetching her library books for assignments. <\/div>\n

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\u201cIt was quite an unusual request \u2013 wanting to bring my Dad with me \u2013 but they didn\u2019t seem to see any problem with it,\u201d Anuya said.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe accommodation has an adjoining room so if I need my Dad for anything in the middle of the night, I can call him easily. This wasn\u2019t available in other universities where carers are off-campus in other accommodation. But the University of Leicester has accommodated for him well, as well as for me.\u201d<\/div>\n

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The University is one of the country\u2019s leading academic institutions in supporting disabled students \u2013 and it\u2019s been given top marks by Anuya. <\/div>\n

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\u201cIf you need anything, the University is willing to change things. If a room is inaccessible to me, they\u2019ll change the venue of the classes \u2013 or if the lift is broken, they\u2019ll move the class to wherever I can get to,\u201d Anuya said. <\/div>\n

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\u201cI think that\u2019s really important as it means that I don\u2019t feel isolated, as there is such a good support network.\u201d <\/div>\n

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With her time at the University coming to an end, Anuya is looking to move to America to continue with her studies\u2026and dad Anand is backing her all the way!<\/div>\n

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University of Leicester Sociology student brings her father to university WHILE most students flee to University to escape their parents \u2013 one Leicester student has flouted the tradition by taking her father along with her. Sociology student Anuya Pai, 21, and her father have lived in adjoining rooms in University Halls of Residence for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}