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Legal bids launched for tuition fee compensation - what you need to know - MSE News
Students who missed out on teaching time during university strikes earlier this year are trying to get compensation, with more than 5,000 signing up to a proposed group legal action and hundreds more filing individual claims...Read the full story: 'Legal bids launched for tuition fee compensation - what you need to know''…
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Changing from dependent to independent
My child is at university and about to start their third, and final, year. Once again we have been asked to provide our income details so the loans can be calculated. However, my child is 25 and I don't feel that they should be depending on us any more to fund their education. We have supported in the past but have other…
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Deferred from 2005 to 2006 but paid higher fees
I deferred my place at uni in 2005 and started in 2006. Is it correct that I was charged £3000 per year?
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Is a loan worth it..
I am going back to UNi as a very mature student (54) and have money set aside from redundancy which will easily cover me for the years top-up degree that I'm undertaking. I seem to think that with the rates the way they are, that there is no incentive for me to take out a loan for fees or maintenance... Am I just being…
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HMRC not passing on payments to SLC
Bit of a rant... A few years ago I changed jobs. A couple of years later on my student loan statement was a line adding £1000+ to my loan because HMRC had decided my employer had not deducted anything from my salary for student loan for the previous 18 months. HMRC were very extremely arrogant about it st the time when I…
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Forecast on tuition fees
Keen to seek peoples opinions on what they forecast on the future of university tuition fees will be... post brexit? Do you think the fees will see any changes as we exit brexit?
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Lifetime training failing me as a learner
Hello Looking for a bit of advice. Essentially I signed up to Lifetime Training over a year ago to complete my level 3 Personal training diploma with them alongside my career. Initially, the support from my desktop tutor was good, I completed the workbooks in a timely manner and had a right nightmare trying to book time…
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Student Maintenance Grant Parental contribution calculator
Could anyone please help i am looking to calculate the amount of money I will need to save to top up my daughters grant next year for subsistence I understand the advice on the website and the calculator other than what they define as taxable income , the student loan advice line on the government website is useless and…
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Postgraduate Council Tax
I am starting a PhD in September and obviously do not want to pay council tax with my student status. Given that i will be moving for four years i would like to change my permanent address away from my home address (parents) which i kept while during my undergrad. Can i do this without having to pay council tax? I have…
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Late finance application
Help everyone I have not applied for student finance yet. I was unsure if I was decided on enrolling this year. But now I definitely want to go in September to uni. Am I too late to apply? What happens if I apply now?
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Help needed
Hello My daughter has just completed a 2 year health and social care Foundation degree as a pre requisite to get on a 3 year paramedic degree Student finance are saying that will not pay tuition for first year of paramedic course Obviously came as a big shock as paramedic course starts in September I will have to take a…
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Student loan. When to apply?
I!!!8217;m hoping to apply for a course via UCAS and have not applied yet for a student loan. Would the process be to apply for the course, then get your offer and then apply for the loan? Or could you apply for the loan and confirm you could/will receive it before applying for the course? As there is no point me applying…
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Postgraduate loan/grant.
My son has enroled on a postgraduate course but needs some advice about loans. He's been entitled to ESA for a year but the payments have only just started due to the amount of his student loan payments. He's in the support group for ESA and also receives low rate DLA both care and mobility. When he was doing his degree he…
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Budget for mature student living expenses
Any ideas on a reasonable monthly amount for this? The course is very intensive so there is no possibility of part-time paid work. It is offered in Bristol; Leeds; Liverpool, so obviously housing costs might vary depending on location.
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Student loan for Pensioner - seriously?
I've been talking to a friend on the phone, who tells me excitedly that she has been accepted for a BA course at her local university, and that she has got a student loan to cover the fees. What intrigues me (because I am envious and would like to do the same) is that she says that because her only income is from her…
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Student Piggy Back Account
Hi Newby here. My son is about to start uni in September, I have heard of a bank account for hIm that i can control by monitoring it and then drip feeding money to him every week/month, is anyone else aware of such a thing, ist it any good? TIA
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Student Overdraft Repayments
I have recently started a new role as a paid intern with a professional football team. I am looking at consistently paying into my overdraft which is still maxed out! Although the pay will bring in less than £1K a month. I was wondering if anyone had any advice as to how I can continue to manage my overdraft repayments and…
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Where do new/soon to be graduates look for jobs?
Where I work we used to contact uni careers service and would get 100 applications of which about a dozen might be suitable for interview, not we get 2 or 3. Salaries remain competitive. It is not a huge company who can rely on name recognition or a huge social media budget. So how to reach graduates and those soon to…
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Postgraduate Loan
Hi Everyone, I will be starting postgraduate study in September. I have savings available to me, but I am wondering whether it would be better to take a Postgrad loan and save the money for a house deposit, or spend the savings. With a postgrad loan it will be a £10,000 loan with 6.1% interest rates and I will have to pay…
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Student loans overpayment & P60's
Hi all, Please let me know if this is supposed to be in the student section but I wasnt sure as its obviously a loan query. So I'm strapped for cash and trying hard to pay off my higher interest debt as quick as possible (its been spiralling for a while). I want to get some money back from the SLC because I know for a fact…
