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New Current Account
Hi all, I'm think about getting a new current account (not a student one as I already have one). Reason being is I have a Santander Student account which has all my loan in it that I use for rent, and I also have a regular Halifax one that has my summer salary go in and I use for things like car insurance/holidays. These…
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Tuition well below par
So our son is studying on a masters program and the lecturers are either not attending classes, or giving a 15 minute class instead of a two hour lecture this has hapoened throughout the school year and we resent our son having to pay tuition fees when lecturers attendance is not always happening. A diary of some of the…
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Investing
Hi - I'm not sure if this is the right part of the forum to post - but would welcome peoples opinions. Daughter is in Y12, taking A2's next year and planning to go to Uni Sept 2018. My parents have been saving for her - on the proviso that the money goes to property or education, and is not squandered. The amount will be a…
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Student finance threatening me with a penalty, need help.
Feeling quite anxious about this although I feel I’ve done nothing wrong. I was badly injured after university and spent awhile on ESA while undergoing several surgical procedures. I cancelled my ESA when a gift from my parents to help me pay for private surgery brought me over the savings threshold. I was then contacted…
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Working whilst a student
Hello I wonder if anyone can advise me please? My son is a student and has just had a one off 3 week period of work. Could anyone please offer some help on whether he needs to pay tax and/or N. I contributions? We're confused. Thank you in advance for advice received :)
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New Master's loan and LISA
My daughter will be starting a Masters degree this Sept using the new government post graduate loan. She is in her final year of her undergraduate degree. She has taken full tuition and maintenance loans for her undergraduate degree ( post 2012). The maximum amount that she can take for the Master's loan is £10,000. This…
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Help with student loan application
Hi I hope someone could help me with student loan application. My youngest is off to uni in September and needs student finance but I am a bit of a loss how to go about this. I have looked via Martins main pages and via internet but still confused. Firstly our household income has dropped in the past year do we have to…
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Uni days discount
Can anyone with a uni days account provide me with the 20% asics discount code PLEASE!!
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Student finance parents income
Hi there all, I am in the process of completing mine and my husbands income details for my sons student finance and am not sure how to work out for our income details regarding contributions to a personal pension. It seems that this additional lump sum payment can be subtracted from our income when applying. My husband…
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What to do before not being a student any more
I was halfway through a PhD and running a company. The company has been doing surprisingly well in the last year and I have just verbally agreed with the university to intercalate for 6 months because I was struggling to do both at the same time. I will try to resume the PhD work in 6 months but I think it's unlikely.…
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FYI - FOI releases on student loan repayment threshold policy (retrospective changes)
There are now 2 extremely insightful freedom of information releases on how the policy on this developed with the pre-2012 threshold (notably hardly anyone seemed to acknowledge prior to me raising it that retrospective changes to thresholds and policy intentions occurred with the pre-2012 threshold). There was much…
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Plan 1 student loan
If you have the money would you repay this? The interest rate on it is 0.9% and I know you can get marginally higher savings rates but then any other savings aren't capitalising on those slightly higher rates. What would you do? Would you repay it if you could?
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help with ontology & epistemology please?
hi guys having an eng lit ba I undertook a Masters in Education but am stumbling in te dark with terms etc. I've just written a research proposal on Special Needs education but it came back to have stuff added on ontology and epistemology!! I've read the books but can't get my head round these two terms and what my…
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Should daughter take out a student loan?
Hi all We live in Scotland & my 17 year old daughter has signed up for a 1 year college course (HNC). She hopes to work with children / schools - possibly eventually doing teacher training (although this is just a possibility). We are in the fortunate position that the family income is above the threshold for her to be…
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Student Bank Accounts
So :money: says "Usually, to be accepted you'll need a UCAS confirmation letter with an unconditional offer, or, if your offer's conditional, you'll need to have A-Level results that meet that condition. As soon as you've got these, you can open an account, allowing you extra time to make full use of its benefits before…
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The terms of the student loan
Quick question - am I correct in saying that in the future the government can do whatever they want with the terms and conditions of current student loans? So at the moment it stands at 9% on anything over £21,000, but I note that the interest rate has gone up today to 6.1%! So can the government simply change the above…
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Apply for postgrad loan in year two?
Is it possible to apply for a postgrad Student Loan in year two to cover only part of the fees?
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Issue
some one at sixth form was saying that there parents had used an accountant to move there money (self employed) so that she could gain the maximum maintenance loan. Is this even legal, she claimed it was? Surely it is not fair on those with a lower household income and receiving less
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Calling all 18-24 year old females - help needed please
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Student Loan Onerous Contact details Letter
I received a letter requesting to update my details with the Student Loans Company. To complete the form it requires that you sign and date a declaration. The declaration states the following. "This must be signed and dated or we cannot process your form ... I understand that Student Loans Company Limited (SLC) reserves…
