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melancholly

2sides2everystory wrote: »

CSA stops enforcing maintenance payments for children before they go to university? Is that a fact ? Who decided that was right ?

If so, we are in a worse mess than I thought.

well i thought CSA was mandatory until the child was 16 and only paid between 16 and 19 if in full time school level education. once a child is over 16 and at university, child support has never been enforced by CSA rules. i think this was the case for friends when i was a student so it certainly isn't new..... and it certainly won't be changed based on student finance rules, right or wrong.

all of this is available on a quick google too, so i can't be completely making it up!

2sides2everystory

Oh well ... all this is light years away from the situation just across the North Sea where tution fees are free AND once the student is aged 20, irrespective of parental household income, the student gets paid over £700 a month as a kind of EMA if living more than a few tens of miles from the parental home, plus they receive an additional assistance specifically for accommodation.

And we English get the notorious 2012 scheme plus if we want to go see the land of the free we have to pay £6 extra from today to Ryanair just because we are UK residents

shashaply

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setmefree2

From The Telegraph

Universities to pay cash incentives to attract students

Universities will pay cash incentives of up to £3,000 to bright sixth formers in an "arms race" for high-quality students.

Institutions across the country, including City University London, and Leicester, Surrey and Northumbria universities, are introducing payments to attract candidates with the best exam grades.

The non-means tested academic rewards are in response to new Government rules which allow universities to take unlimited numbers of sixth formers gaining at least two As and a B at A-level - known as AAB+ students.

With the new freedom to recruit more high-achieving students, less prestigious institutions fear that good quality applicants will increasingly be poached by higher ranking universities.

In the first signs of a "scholarship arms race", universities are now vying to give the best deals to 2012 students, the first to face tuition fees of up to £9,000 a year.

At City University London, scholarships of £3,000 will be paid to AAB plus students in each year of a three or four year degree, subject to them passing their university exams.

Surrey University is offering £2,000 to candidates who achieve three A grades who select the university as their firm choice, while Northumbria is offering £1,000 a year to AAB+ students.
Leicester, which is ranked in the top 20 of UK institutions, is offering £2,000 awards each year over three years for students gaining three A grades.
Departmental scholarships of £1,250, paid towards tuition fees, will also be given to students who meet specific course requirements.

But institutions in the "squeezed middle" of the league tables are most likely to feel forced to compete financially for students, according to the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi).
"They are vulnerable to losing some of their AAB+ students to more selective, more prestigious, institutions," said Bahram Bekhradnia, Hepi director.
"At the same time they are competing with their peers to hold onto their existing and to recruit additional AAB+ students.
"This is likely to give rise to an arms race of 'merit-based' scholarships – if one university offers them others will be obliged to do so."
Critics of the AAB policy said universities were "fighting over" applicants by offering cash incentives to students who already tended to be from more advantaged backgrounds.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/8901375/Universities-to-pay-cash-incentives-to-attract-students.html

setmefree2

Research has found that a minimum of 60 English universities with middle and lower rankings in the Sunday Times league table are offering the financial incentives.
The University of Birmingham, which will charge £9,000 tuition fees next year, is offering £5,000 ‘scholarships’ for top students entering maths, chemistry and computer science courses.

Newcastle’s school of electrical, electronic and computer engineering is offering £2,000 per year and a laptop to students who gain places with at least two As and a B in their A-levels, according the the research by The Sunday Times.
Kent is offering £2,000 each year for applicants with at least three A grades at A-level, while Sheffield Hallam will pay £1,000 to those with at least AAB at A-level.

Brunel, in west London, will slash £3,000 off their students’ £9,000 fees for anyone with three As at A-level.
While Surrey university is offering applicants with two A grades and an A* £3,000 and a free membership at Surrey Sports Park health and fitness centre.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069769/Universities-offer-cash-laptops-free-sports-club-memberships-attract-students.html#ixzz1fZE1ieTN

setmefree2

A university is launching a competition to win an “Ultimate Scholarship”, which would give the winner free tuition at the institution for life.

Not only would the winner of the competition at Cardiff University have their undergraduate degree fees of £27,000 paid in full, but they would also be funded to do MA, MBA, PhD and continuing professional development courses.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=418354&c=1