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Gloss

Hi!

I am an italian student and I'm applying for study an undergraduate course at a London university. I'd like to have more information about the student loan, as I can't afford the entire tuition fee.
Can the student loan cover the entire fee or it is more probably that it will cover only a part of it?
I am a little worried about it.

Thank you in advance,

Evelline

rolo-polo1965

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

She needs to speak to the course providers, but I'd be surprised if there's any funding, and what there is will be extremely competitive so a 2nd class degree is unlikely to cut it.

BTW, in about 30 seconds, I've managed to find this page. Has she got the necessary work experience?

Thanks very much for this. She currently works for and has done part time for the past for years for a charity that supports children/young peole with autism.

I have sent her the link

Thanks again you are a star

Dunroamin

Gloss wrote: »

Hi!

I am an italian student and I'm applying for study an undergraduate course at a London university. I'd like to have more information about the student loan, as I can't afford the entire tuition fee.
Can the student loan cover the entire fee or it is more probably that it will cover only a part of it?
I am a little worried about it.

Thank you in advance,

Evelline

If you are eligible for the tuition fee loan as an EU student, then the loan will cover the whole amount of the fees.

vassa

Just finished punching myself in the face, now i'm ready to ask about my student loan.

I applied for course A, but applied late and so didn't get in cause it was full.

I then added course B onto my UCAS form. UCAS send me their updated form stating i'd applied there too and then i was accepted onto my course. Happy days.

I then check my student finance in June online. It still has my old course name only on it, and won't let me change my details, not address, course, nothing. I ring up and am told it's been done by them and is all sorted.

I then look again in July, same thing, so i ring up again and they assure me the first person didn't know what they were doing, but it's been sent to the appropriate team now and it's been done.

Same in August. Same in September.

So i start uni, and my finance isn't here. I've been told that because my entitlement letter says the old course on it (they didn't send me an updated one) that my uni cannot process me, because they've got nothing on their system electronically that they can tick to say i'm there. This can only be generated by student finance, who send it to them electronically whilst also sending out the form to me. I should then show the entitlement form to my uni, who then confirm my attendance. I've had this from the admin of my uni, the top top admin person.

I tell student finance this, and they state that because my course has started they need me to get my uni to confirm my attendance. But they can't physically do it. So i explain that they can't physically do it but am just told the same nonsense over and over.

So i'm kind of stuck in a catch 22. It doesn't matter to student finance that i was assured 4 times BEFORE my course started that someone there had sorted it, they now apparently can't do anything.

So does anyone know who at student finance i can get to that actually knows what they're doing/has the power to do anything about it? Because the people on the main phone line are one step above amoeba and have no clue what they're doing.

All this for a piece of paper.

Taiko

Use the complaints email address on the website. They should really know this by now though, especially as the job can be done to fix it in around 90 seconds.

opt-a-mist

Hi SCLWorker,
I have completed one year of a degree at College but am at the point of leaving due to extenuating circumstances. I do intend to return to HE next year but want to know where I stand with student finance. I might return to the same college and do a different course or go to a completely different college. I am now into the end of my second week of the 1st Semester and I have been told that my first tranche of money is being sent from Student Finance on 16th Oct. I have search everywhere online to find answers but to no avail. Please could you or anyone else who knows the facts tell me the following:

1. If I leave before the 1st tranche of Student Finance is paid will the whole of that years finance be available to me when I return to HE?
2. Will I be able to change courses easily and what finance is available?
3. If I try and stay on but leave some time during the year due to extenuating circumstances do I still get that years finance when I resume college?
4. If I go back to the same college but do a different course will I get full funding?
5. If I go to a different college will I get full funding?
Thank you in advance for any help.
Opt-0-Mist

vassa

opt-a-mist wrote: »

Hi SCLWorker,
I have completed one year of a degree at College but am at the point of leaving due to extenuating circumstances. I do intend to return to HE next year but want to know where I stand with student finance. I might return to the same college and do a different course or go to a completely different college. I am now into the end of my second week of the 1st Semester and I have been told that my first tranche of money is being sent from Student Finance on 16th Oct. I have search everywhere online to find answers but to no avail. Please could you or anyone else who knows the facts tell me the following:

1. If I leave before the 1st tranche of Student Finance is paid will the whole of that years finance be available to me when I return to HE?
2. Will I be able to change courses easily and what finance is available?
3. If I try and stay on but leave some time during the year due to extenuating circumstances do I still get that years finance when I resume college?
4. If I go back to the same college but do a different course will I get full funding?
5. If I go to a different college will I get full funding?
Thank you in advance for any help.
Opt-0-Mist

I'm in a similar boat and will try to answer:

1. Think so. But if they've made a payment, even if it's only one lot of tuition, it's deemed a full year.

Course doesn't matter. They work it on an entitlement basis based off the course length of your chosen course at any one time.

So if you do a 4 year course, you get 4 years + 1 year (gift year) minus any previous years.

So if you have a full year of tuition now, and then go onto a 3 year course, you get 3+1=4, -1 = 3, so you'll get full funding.

If this is your first year, even if you do the whole year then drop out you'll still get full funding cause it counts as a gift year. If you do a second year and then drop out you have to prove extenuating circumstances.

pinkie_pie

Is there any way around this? I have just started a foundation degree by distance, I will do the BA top up after. I applied for a student loan but was rejected as I already have a level 5 diploma, this was a complete surprise as I didn't receive a loan for it so it didnt occur to me to worry about it. The student loan people told me I need tot leave my uni and go to one eg open uni who enroll you on the BA from the start, then I'll be eligible. Seems crazy they're advising I leave a course costing 2600 for two years to do one costing at least four times that. Any advice please?

vassa

I don't know about diploma's, but if the qualification is on the same 'level' then you're already deemed to be qualified to that level, so the foundation degree and diploma are probably on an even keel with each other.

Search 'qualifications framework uk diploma' and a government site comes up explaining the similarities in level - it appears that your diploma, like a foundation degree, is one level below BA.

Basically if you just do a foundation year on its own, you're not entitled to funding. If you do a BA WITH foundation year, then you would be.

Also, unless you're disabled you're not entitled to anything except tuition loanswise from them unless you're studying at a campus uni and not at distance.

Hope this helps

opt-a-mist

vassa wrote: »

I'm in a similar boat and will try to answer:

1. Think so. But if they've made a payment, even if it's only one lot of tuition, it's deemed a full year.

Course doesn't matter. They work it on an entitlement basis based off the course length of your chosen course at any one time.

So if you do a 4 year course, you get 4 years + 1 year (gift year) minus any previous years.

So if you have a full year of tuition now, and then go onto a 3 year course, you get 3+1=4, -1 = 3, so you'll get full funding.

If this is your first year, even if you do the whole year then drop out you'll still get full funding cause it counts as a gift year. If you do a second year and then drop out you have to prove extenuating circumstances.

Thanks you for your comments, which were really helpful. I realise that I need some more specific information so could someone please help with this. If I manage to stay at college but then find it’s too much and have to leave due to extenuating circumstances, what will happen regarding my student fees if I am able to resume my degree at a later period? Will I get full funding for the year that I left or will I only get funding for the percentage of money that is remaining unpaid for the degree course? EG If I leave during the first term will I lose 25% of the finance for that year if I resume education, all of the finance for that year or none at all?