NHS Bursary for student midwives

sortinitout

Hi, I am hoping to get into uni in 2012 to study midwifery. I live in Wales and have 2 children and am married so I can only apply to local unis. One of these is in England and the other is in Wales. could anybody please give me details on finance I'd be entitled to and what the difference is between the England and Wales bursary.
Thanks in advance.

GothicStirling

sortinitout wrote: »

Hi, I am hoping to get into uni in 2012 to study midwifery. I live in Wales and have 2 children and am married so I can only apply to local unis. One of these is in England and the other is in Wales. could anybody please give me details on finance I'd be entitled to and what the difference is between the England and Wales bursary.
Thanks in advance.

As you are resident in Wales, you need to contact Student Finance Wales, no matter what you study.

I may be wrong, but won't it be lower student fees for you to study in Wales than England?

kazzah60

GothicStirling wrote: »

As you are resident in Wales, you need to contact Student Finance Wales, no matter what you study.

I may be wrong, but won't it be lower student fees for you to study in Wales than England?

As far as I am aware the NHS pay the fees for this type of course- they are paying my sons fees to study radiotherapy at Liverpool Uni
he also gets a bursary of about £2400 per annum and student loans of about the same.

I beleive students with dependents get more funding
if you go to the NHS Student Bursaries website there is a link to calculate roughly what your entitled to
hth
Karen

Person_one

I know that funding for nursing is a bit up in the air at the moment, with no guarantees as to what the situation might be in 2012 and I would assume midwifery is the same.

If I were you, I would plan based on the assumption that you'll be paying the same fees as everybody else and on the same loan package, with no bursary. Its just not really safe to assume that funding will still be in place next year.

munchkinboo

As a student nurse in the UK with no dependants I recieve the basic bursury of £6700 a year (£550 a month) With each child you are entitled to dependants allowance, childcare allowance etc...plus if your partner is unemplyeed they become a dependant too... If you're over 26 when you start the course you also get an older students allowance which is like anoth £1000 a year. Sorry I don't know about welsh finance but i think the nhs bursaries dont matter where in britain you study. Plus the NHS pay all tuition fees. Hope that was any help. Good luck

sortinitout

Thanks all for your replies. I know the NHS will pay the fees and also supply a bursary but with having to consider my children in all my plans I really need to go for the more financially astute option, although saying that I will be grateful of a place on the course regardless of England/Wales. I know that Wales has a non-means tested bursary where as Englands is means tested. Although my husband works it is not the best wage so the bursary would be a necessity. I'm sure I'll find out how much it is if I get on the course but would just like an approx guide which you have given me Munchkinboo
Thanks again

Person_one

There is a calculator on the NHS bursary site that gives an estimate for the 2011/12 year, nothing has yet been announced for the 2012/13 year.

http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/816.aspx

You really do need to plan for the worst case scenario though that the NHS may stop paying the fees and the bursary may be withdrawn. The lecturers I've spoken to feel that this is the way the wind is blowing and it would be awful to go through the whole application process, get a place and then find out that you couldn't go for financial reasons.

Have you studied at university before?

lizt1

munchkinboo wrote: »

As a student nurse in the UK with no dependants I recieve the basic bursury of £6700 a year (£550 a month) With each child you are entitled to dependants allowance, childcare allowance etc...plus if your partner is unemplyeed they become a dependant too... If you're over 26 when you start the course you also get an older students allowance which is like anoth £1000 a year. Sorry I don't know about welsh finance but i think the nhs bursaries dont matter where in britain you study. Plus the NHS pay all tuition fees. Hope that was any help. Good luck

Hi there - might be worth clarifying that the basic bursary of £6700 per year will be for students on a diploma level course. If you are doing a course at degree level, and you do it in England (no idea about the process in Wales, sorry) then you would only get the means-tested bursary which is a maximum of around £4000. But you could also apply for a student loan on top, which you would have to pay back eventually. All in all, I think diploma students get a much better deal financially than degree level students!

Chunky_monkey_7

... If you're over 26 when you start the course you also get an older students allowance which is like anoth £1000 a year

Hi there, just wondering where you got this information from, I'm a diploma nursing student too in my late twenties but never heard of this extra money :think:

Chunky

hjsmum

lizt1 wrote: »

Hi there - might be worth clarifying that the basic bursary of £6700 per year will be for students on a diploma level course. If you are doing a course at degree level, and you do it in England (no idea about the process in Wales, sorry) then you would only get the means-tested bursary which is a maximum of around £4000. But you could also apply for a student loan on top, which you would have to pay back eventually. All in all, I think diploma students get a much better deal financially than degree level students!

The maximum means tested bursary for a midwifery degree isn't £4000, I get over 9k a year for me, Hubby (who stays home to look after kids) and 2 kids.

Husband gave up work to look after kids as by the the time we add up bursary, tax credits, student loan, child benefit, housing and council tax benefit and weigh that up against him working and us paying for childcare, we are much better off now. Plus it's been really nice for him and the kids to spend more time together.

clairec79

In Wales you get the non-means tested bursary for midwifery (it was the same level as the diploma for nurses in England) you may get extra for hubby and kids depending on your income but the minimum is over £500 a month. You can't get a student loan to top up.

In England it's means tested but you also get the loan

It goes on which uni you go to, not where you live