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Studying on Maternity Leave
Hi All, I'm pregnant with my 1st child. I currently work evenings and weekends. I am taking 1 year mat leave beginning in July. I am due to return to study in September - will I still receive SMP if I also receive student loan & bursary? This is not a NHS course, no placements are involved (only 2 and a half days per week…
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Both pensioner and student
:wall:Help please, first time poster. I am registered as a post grad research student and am transferring to MPhil/PhD status. I am funding this out of my small ex-work pension. I have just received my government pension. I am 63. I am looking for some funding to help me. Any ideas please? Thanks
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Cheap Way to be a Student
Is there a cheap way in which I can be a student? I'm working with a number of students on a project and as part of it need access to a subscription service. All the students I'm working with have free access to it using their college email account, but I can't get on to it! It would cost me £1700/year and I'm thinking…
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Open university - any grants?
First post, so I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place... but I have enrolled onto a course for Open University starting later this year. A friend who goes to a bricks and mortar uni said I may be entitled to a grant called Parents Learning Allowance or something along those lines as I have a son. Is this applicable…
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Compelling personal reasons - SFE
Hi all, I started uni back in September 2012 and dropped out around November 2013. I have since been working full time and I am now looking at returning. I call SFE this morning to ask how much funding I would be entitled to and they've advised me I can get 2 years but if I can prove I have compelling personal reasons they…
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Student fee change mid course
I joined a private uni in May 15 in order to study a 2 year degree priced at £7k per year. As I was a mature student I was required to complete a pathway course before, begin a 3 year degree (£6k per year) and after my first term I would be assessed to see if I was good enough to move onto the 2 year course......all making…
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student loans and travelling
So I'm a little confused, and I wanted some advice from people that may have had experience with this before I ring the phone number and go into a recorded conversation. So I may well be going travelling for over a year, and I don't have much money. I'm going to be travelling on the cheap, taking budget busses, (maybe)…
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Student Loan - Travelling
Sorry if this has came up before Going travelling for 8 months in Sept and will be living off savings. After this I will return to the UK and continue to work as normal. Do I pay student loan while away? Thanks
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Money help, girlfriend going to university
Hi, me and my girlfriend this year will be moving to Derby from Doncaster, probably renting a small 2 bedroom house for 3 years while she finishes her course. My question is will she get any finalcial help, she will not be work, I am on £24k a year salary. Can anybody give us some rough figures of what she is eligible for,…
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The Government's new Student Loan Repayment Strategy
Hi, The government recently published its review of the Student Loan Repayment for Higher Education: www gov.uk/ government/ uploads/ system/ uploads/ attachment_data/ file/ 499432/BIS-16-8-student-loan-repayment-for-sustainable-higher-education-strategy-February-2016. pdf Within this strategy it talks of people being…
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Student finance when you already have an HNC and HND
My cousin is thinking of doing his degree with the open university, he already works in the industry he will be studying and has got an HNC and HND which he did about 6 years ago and then had to stop due to my aunt becoming unwell, he was studying away and came home to look after her. As he has been out of study for some…
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Students caught up in £6k loan trap as Government freezes salary threshold for anothe
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/studentfinance/article-3439538/Students-caught-6k-loan-trap-Government-freezes-salary-threshold-five-years-U-turn.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
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UK postgraduate student loans scheme
Hi, I'm really confused by the new postgraduate loan scheme as it seems to have some odd restrictions that may mean that my girlfriend isn't eligible. Here is the situation. We met in Wales when I was a PhD student and my girlfriend was working here after finishing her degree. I am about to move back into England for a new…
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Going to Uni as a carer
I'm a carer on carers' allowance for an elderly parent. I've worked really hard and will be taking some a-levels this summer (privately funded). I would really like to go to uni and have had a couple of offers however I really don't know how affordable it will be. I will lose the carers' allowance but I will still be doing…
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Student Grant/Pension query
My son is at Uni (1st year) and gets a full grant as I retired at 62 and income below £25000. I am due to get state pension in April which will take my income over min. and reduce his grant by £900 ish. Would I be able to defer my pension for two years enabling him to get full grant and is it worth it. Thanks for any…
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Grant denied due to SFE mistake. What can I do?
My niece did a year of study and left her course at UWE. She then did really well in a Foundation Course at UWE particularly in the physics module. Even though UWE included the physics module in the foundation year, they didn't offer it as a degree so she managed to get accepted at Queen Mary's London. She went to SFE…
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Don't think I'm going to get TMA finished on time
For various reasons which I won't go into I've left my TMA to the last minute. It's due in tomorrow however I've been trying to get it done and I'm just really struggling with it. I just know I'm not going to be able to finish it and even if I do finish it I just know it's going to be a rubbish assignment. I don't know…