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Advice on best way to pay off tuition fees in Ireland.
Hello everyone, My daughter has just been offered a place on a 4 yr post grad Medicine course in Ireland. The total cost of fees, accommodation, utilities etc will be about 26000 per year :eek: We have already offered to help her with the cost of "accommodation, utilities,etc." (approx 11000 per year ) We are looking for…
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invest student loan
My son is eligible for a maintenance loan during his placement years but should be able to live off his salary. Should he add this loan to his existing debt (over £60k) and invest it, possibly in a personal pension? Are there regulations that prevent this?
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SLC overseas problem
Hi everyone, I studied between 2005-08 so I think I have a "plan 1" type contract with the student loans company. A few years ago I moved to the EU to travel for awhile and am now studying a postgrad degree at a university here. My problem is I never informed the SLC that I was moving abroad for a couple of reasons. I…
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Not got full deposit back
Hi, Hope this is the right place to post this. I need advice on what to do about the rental company not giving our full deposit back. I've just graduated and received my final deposit back from our house and found out we've been £177 short changed from £800. After contacting them regarding this, they showed us why they…
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Student Loan when Travelling
Hi, I've been unemployed and travelling since November 2016. I have informed Student Loans that I'm not receiving any income and provided the evidence they asked for (I actually sent them all my bank statements since leaving my job as well as the most recent ones). Unfortunately, they said this was not adequate and they…
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Should I pay off my student loan if I'm going to be a high earner?
Hi, I really cannot decide what I ought to do about my student debt owing to all the political uncertainty at the moment. I started my course in 2014 and am graduating next week. I have over £40,000 of debt and I know the interest rate is pretty high at 4.6% (generally more than I could get in savings!). My problem is that…
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Payroll/SLC/HMRC threeway...
I genuinely looked for five minutes to decide which forum to post this in, so if it's in the wrong place, apologies. I work full time, and like many, have a student loan which needs repaying. I pay £x per month. Not long ago I received my annual statement from the SLC for payments 2016/17. Instead of saying I had paid…
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Declined pla and childcare allowance
I am starting a degree in September - NHS course (no longer funded by the NHS) I have been declined for eligibility of any parents learning allowance and childcare grants. All calculators, open days etc have said I should be entitled to both of these based on my partners income. I have started an appeal but just wanted…
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Gap year trip causing fee status issues
I am currently 34 and support myself. I finally took the plunge after deciding I really want to be a nurse in October 2015. I needed to do an access to HE course which I could not attend until September 2016 so decided to take a gap 'year' trip to South America (something I had wanted to do for such a long time. I booked a…
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Extra charges added to my Degree?
Good evening all, I am hoping someone is able to please put my mind at rest. I have done 1 year with the Open University, with the plan to move to a "Brick" University this September as I don't have any A-Levels. I applied for a course with Manchester Metropolitan which is BSc Exercise and Sport Science (Distance…
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Multiple student accounts - freebie hoarding
Hi all, I'm starting my first year of undergrad this year and will be opening a student account soon. I was wondering if it is advisable to open an account in order to obtain its freebie and then subsequently close and move accounts in order to obtain another, eventually ending up with the "best" account in terms of…
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student and now 60 years old
I started uni last year (2016) at the age of 59. In May this year (2017) I had my 60th birthday. SFE now tells me that for my second year, my maintenance loan drops from £8600 (approx) to £3566 ' because I will be 60 on the first day of term'. Difficult to get clarification but most information I have found re. funding…
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Urgent advice needed
Hi all, quick question that I need help with OH has finally completed the uni course and is due to graduate in septemeber. Student finance has now pulled this years fees due to the following. Childcare forms were filled out fraudulently and all funding has stopped, I know this is untrue as her child has been going to the…
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Summer School Abroad
Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or experiences of going abroad for a few weeks for summer school? I'm a MSc student and will (hopefully!) graduate in the autumn. The summer school is specialised to my field of interest and sounds really interesting, but I'd have to pay around £2000 for it (including fees,…
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Student account for France
Just wonder if anyone has recent experience with opening a bank account for a student studying in France (Lyon, in our case!)? Found some old threads, but nothing current. Obviously doing some googling too ;-) thx!
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Mobilise and motivate - abolish Student Loans with Labour
I have never been a political party member but their manifesto is the one I'll be voting for without question. It is an enormous change when one of the two big parties in UK comes out and says they will abolish student loans and thereby model themselves on eight European countries who do not charge tuition fees. I never…
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£65,000 worth of student debt: Pay it off early as a high earner?
I currently have £65,000 worth of student debt. I am due to start employment in London in September. My salary will be as follows: Yr 1: £40,000 Yr 2: £45,000 Yr 3: £80,000 Yr 4: £90,000 Yr 5: £100k++ In years 1+2 I can save £1,000 per month - saving up for a deposit for a house which would ideally be purchased in year 3…
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Should I pay my student loan off?
Hello all, I am new here and this is my first post, however I have been lurking on these forums for some time and have always found advice here extremely valuable. I was really looking for advice on a large financial decision that I will have to make relatively soon and I just wanted to make sure it was actually the right…
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Sponsored student and tuition loans
Hi all, I am fortunate enough to be starting uni in September as a sponsored student and my employer will be paying my tuition fees by transferring me the cash to pay the uni fees. I have been advised to still apply for a tuition loan and then bank the employer's cash. the idea is that I will get interest on the cash that…
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Teacher training - should I pay the fees or get a loan?
Forgive me if this has already been addressed somewhere, I've had a look but can't find anything....... I am starting teacher training in September, so just a one year course...... but most online calculators don't give an option to select a one year course. I'm trying to decide whether to get a loan to pay the course fees…
