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Best Student Acc
My daughter starting uni in Sept has savings in several banks but wondering which is the best bank to go with,hassle free .
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Financing Foundation year?
Hello, I have been looking into doing a foundation year as a mature student, before embarking on a full time university course. However, the only thing stopping me is the fact that it would cost me £5600 that I do not have. The LEA doesnt pay for it. Does anyone with more knowledge than me know if there is any kind of help…
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What exactly is classed as "full time" at University for funding?
I have been made an offer for 1st year or 2nd year entry on my degree course. I have since pointed out to the university that I cannot actually meet the requirement for year 2 entry because my current OU course exam is not until October and they need confirmation I have passed by the end of August. Their suggestion has…
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Disabled student with mental health problems having to quit?
I'm wondering if anyone can help me here. Basically, I am hoping someone can point out something I may have missed, because at this stage, I've pretty much resolved to quit uni and obviously, that's not what I want. I suffer from mental health problems (ocd, depression, sleep disorders, etc.) and had already attempted…
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has any one tried the slc repayments site calculator today?
is it working for everyone ok? as i have just logged onto it and seems to have wrong settlement details on it, they have not got the details for tax year 09/10 yet so have imputted the details for that and for what has been paid for this tax year so far but is saying that i owe -£1100 (i wish lol) i only have a £100 or so…
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Anybody understand this?
My daughter is currently in her last year of college (A levels) and part of her work study is to review certain passages and theories from the given papers. One passage she can't make any sense of is the following taken from the Naturalism evaluation bit in the Meta-ethics section in a theology book (OCR Philosophy and…
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Need advice about uni
im 22 married with a baby. all my life i had wanted to go to university. So after studying part time with the OU i decided i wanted to go full time for the university experience. i applied and got a conditional offer for my chosen uni. The condition was that i had to obtain 30 more OU points. I started to do 3 10 point…
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SLC - repayment - Urgent help request!
Apologies for posting a single thread, I couldn't decide the correct thread to post in :oPlease feel free to move it to the correct thread! Quick facts: Student Loan taken out 2000 - 2002 (although issues that it was a transferred grant from 1998, but it isn't recognised as such; academic year is listed as finishing 2003?)…
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MSc Courses
I have seen an MSc course that I am interested in It is only offered in a few universities as it is a specialised course I went to a Russell Group uni for undergrad - would it look bad to go to a lower ranked Uni for my MSc? or is it the subject matter and grade that is more important (especially as higher ranked uni's do…
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37 in 7
This may interest some. Bascially you can make £37 in 7mins. Not a fortune but its not to be sniffed at. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=117373691612178
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Advice on 'student' credit cards
Hi chaps, I was wondering if I could ask some advice on my current situation, I'll try and be as brief and concise as possible. Basically I'm interested in getting a credit card (which I would pay off in full monthly via direct debit), mostly for the added security on large purchases but any cashback etc. would obviously…
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Graduation Money saving?
Hi all, Just booked my graduation from my BA Photography, Video and Digital Imaging degree..... I'm normally such a moneysaver but if I wanted to attend with any guests it cost £25 per ticket, so I got one for my Dad and one for my partner..... The robes to hire for a couple of hours (which we MUST wear or we are not…
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Open Uni help
After dropping out of uni last year i've decided to start over with the open uni. I have a couple of problems though. I completed 105 credits but haven't recieved anything from the uni for this despite phoning them asking for proof of my results. I finished in May 2009 so they've had a year to get it sorted, I know its…
