Can you still get loans and grants if no tuition fee?

redmel1621

Hi
I hope someone can help me out please?

If I wanted to start a 3yr degree course, but had already dropped out of the first year twice a number of years ago. How many years worth of tuition fees would I have remaining?

Also assuming I wasn't eligible for any more tuition fee loans, could I still get the maintenance loans/grants etc... or do those also have the same 'course length + 1 rules'

Thank you xx

p.s these are questions for someone else, and not actually for me, but thought it would be easier to ask in that manner.

DietIrnBru

Depends where you are and what course you are doing.

Contact the relevant student finance agency for ur part of the UK. Explain what has occurred and ask them what would be available for the course you want to do.

redmel1621

Thanks...

It is more a hypothetical question for a friend. He isn't even sure he wants to go back and 'try again' but I just thought I would help him to seek out his options

DietIrnBru

Might be an idea for them to work a few years - assuming they can get a job!

redmel1621

Yes, there in lies the problem. He is trying to find a job at the moment, although not very successfully!
I kind of suggested he might want to look back into studying now a few years have passed and he has a lot of personal problems sorted out...

I was just wondering how it works in terms of finance in that situation? I maybe dreamt it lol but I was sure I heard somewhere, that someone had still got loans and grants, so used those to pay for the tuition fees? Like I say, maybe I dreamt it

DietIrnBru

Goodness knows these days.

Think you have to give your first born child up as security until you pay back all your student loans. Positively medieval.

Dunroamin

DietIrnBru wrote: »

Goodness knows these days.

Think you have to give your first born child up as security until you pay back all your student loans. Positively medieval.

I wonder where you've got the idea that repaying a student loan is tough or that life is difficult until you do?

enabledebra

redmel1621 wrote: »

Hi
I hope someone can help me out please?

If I wanted to start a 3yr degree course, but had already dropped out of the first year twice a number of years ago. How many years worth of tuition fees would I have remaining?

Also assuming I wasn't eligible for any more tuition fee loans, could I still get the maintenance loans/grants etc... or do those also have the same 'course length + 1 rules'

Thank you xx

p.s these are questions for someone else, and not actually for me, but thought it would be easier to ask in that manner.

You'd have 2 years of standard funding available but have to self fund the first year's fees. You can still get a maintenance loan and some kinds of grants are also available if applicable to you. Here's a good overview:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/@educ/documents/digitalasset/dg_200470.pdf

dizzyrascal

I think the OP's friend needs to sit down and work out their motivation for undertaking more study or they might drop out again.
Is it to improve job prospects? If so, what career are they looking at upon graduation?
There are lots of good reasons to study for a degree but if the friend is not really committed to study then it is likely to fail.