Help! Courses with no government funding!

RobynEva

I am a student who was looking to get into a drama school this year but I was unsuccessful and now I am looking into a foundation course at Guildford school of acting but there's is no funding for it! It's only 1 year long but it's £9000 for the year! I can't just find £9000 so I was wondering if anyone could give me advice as to where I could get some form of relatively cheap funding if there is any?
Thanks Robyn

agrinnall

The usual advice would be a career development loan, so you could google that, but I'm doubtful if it will be allowed for a foundation course. And if you did get one you would have to start repaying as soon as the course ends, so a big chunk of your student finance would be going straight back out to pay off the loan.

amiehall

Perhaps you would be better spending time strengthening your application then applying again to the funded course in September?

johnnythefox

Uni funding has been decimated this year, especially for the arts, so it's very unlikely I'm afraid. As it's a foundation course, it may not even qualify for funding. Career development loans are the only way to go for many would-be students now.