scholarship and tuition fee help needed

pineapple123

Hi hope someone can help me,
My daughter has applied and been accepted conditionally for a foundation degree course, she is currently doing Btec at college who also run this foundation and hons course in conjunction with local uni.
what I need is advice re finance.

She will get non means tested bursary.
I have looked at scholarships and she should meet the criteria for her FdSc course for an academic acheivement scholarship.
she is not entitled to any grants/loans etc except for tuition fees.

My questions are..
Would she/me have to pay all/part of the tuition fees to be elegible for a scholarship or could she take out a tuition loan of £2,290 and pay the rest with the scholarship, also would her bursery be affected.

She/I would find it hard to find several thousand pounds to cover course fees, especially with travel costs etc.
Any advice would be great.

Oldernotwiser

pineapple123 wrote: »

Hi hope someone can help me,
My daughter has applied and been accepted conditionally for a foundation degree course, she is currently doing Btec at college who also run this foundation and hons course in conjunction with local uni.
what I need is advice re finance.

She will get non means tested bursary.
I have looked at scholarships and she should meet the criteria for her FdSc course for an academic acheivement scholarship.
she is not entitled to any grants/loans etc except for tuition fees.

My questions are..
Would she/me have to pay all/part of the tuition fees to be elegible for a scholarship or could she take out a tuition loan of £2,290 and pay the rest with the scholarship, also would her bursery be affected.

She/I would find it hard to find several thousand pounds to cover course fees, especially with travel costs etc.
Any advice would be great.

I don't understand why you think she's ineligible for a maintenance loan or why she can't just take out a normal loan for her fees. The scholarship money should be on top of all these.

Taiko

Just seen the non means tested bursary. Is that NHS? Because most bursaries are means tested if they're awarded by universities

pineapple123

Thanks
My daughter will still be living at home.
she will not get a maintainance grant (household income just over due to working extra unsociable hours).



The bursary is non means tested because I presume is a specialist college and far from the uni (30 miles), the uni is very close to our home and has many more facilities. She has recieved a letter to confirm the amount she gets but not why. its not NHS.

So please could someone clarify can she obtain the tuition loan and get the scholarship and will this affect her bursary.

MrsManda

pineapple123 wrote: »

Thanks
My daughter will still be living at home.
she will not get a maintainance grant (household income just over due to working extra unsociable hours).
The bursary is non means tested because I presume is a specialist college and far from the uni (30 miles), the uni is very close to our home and has many more facilities. She has recieved a letter to confirm the amount she gets but not why. its not NHS.
So please could someone clarify can she obtain the tuition loan and get the scholarship and will this affect her bursary.

Regardless of income, she'll get 73% of the total funding package as this is the non-income assessed part of Student Finance. This includes tuition fees and maintanence loan. If she fills out the Student Finance Calculator it'll give a rough idea of what loans and grants she'll receive.
As the bursary isn't means tested it won't be affected by the money she gets from the student finance.