Grants available for students & education

susannahcc

The Thomas Wall Trust are amazing, they sponsored me £1k towards the cost of legal studies. Just need to find the rest now...

They are something to do with Wall's Sausages. They don't even need to meet u in person, as they check u out through the university.

careerchanging

Can anyone help me? I left teaching 18 months ago (as Head of ICT) to become a partner in property development. Obviously the market did us both a huge favour and fell apart on us. I really enjoyed my work on the property and would like to train to become a plumber but can no longer afford the course. Are there any sources that I may be able to use to help fund this. I am 30 somthing, degree educated and recieveing 10p a week JSA.

Please tell me there is some hope

Oldernotwiser

careerchanging wrote: »

Can anyone help me? I left teaching 18 months ago (as Head of ICT) to become a partner in property development. Obviously the market did us both a huge favour and fell apart on us. I really enjoyed my work on the property and would like to train to become a plumber but can no longer afford the course. Are there any sources that I may be able to use to help fund this. I am 30 somthing, degree educated and recieveing 10p a week JSA.

Please tell me there is some hope

The bad news is that there's no funding for this in your situation, the good news is that this is a really bad time to be trying to get into construction, as I'd think you'd know!

If you have a look on the Employment and Training Board there are lots of threads about retraining and adult apprenticeshipsn although none of them offer any easy answers.

Can't you do supply work until the economic situation picks up? If nothing else you could use the money to fund your plumbing course.

MrsManda

paulak412 wrote: »

hi i a single mum and starting uni, does anyone know a grant/charity that helps with fees? (£3175 py) i studying BSc Hons Finance

Are you not eligible for a fee loan?

purplejenny

My son is on a farriery apprenticeship (learning to shoe horses), on a basic wage with a wife and 2 children to support, they do get tax credits, but 3 times a year he has to go away to college for 2-3 weeks and this costs him a minimum of £300 each time, which is not taken into account when they apply for tax credits - Does anyone know where he might get some help with these costs as it makes them desperately short of money.

newsgroup_monkey

amateur_saver wrote: »

Any ideas of how or if there is any funding for doing an MA? I am 36 and in full time work but would like to do, at sometime in my life, an MA ........ I am put off at the expense of it to be honest, and would find it hard to finance myself.....

Any ideas of people who help for part time MA for people who have to still live and use money for keeping the family going?

A_S x

If you find an answer, lmk! My GF is hopefully going on a full MSc starting in October (for 12 months)

The only answer we can find at the moment is to get a Career Development loan. Unfortunately, you can only get 80% of fees (hers are £3950) so she has to find the first £800. Plus the max is £8k so obviously she is looking to live off £5k. Sounds fine, but her travel is going to be £2k of that. And before you say "Oh, when I was a student I lived off blah blah", your course was only 30 weeks. Try 52! It is a 12 month course with around 1 week off at Christmas and a week off at Easter. No 3 month vacation or opportunity to do part time work. In addition, she will be expected to put in a 12 hour day. It really is a 2 year course crammed into 1.

Depending on what you are studying, there are some £1k grants available (in some fields more) but they are hotly contested. Research Masters often pay YOU to take the course (as do PhDs) in the form of a stipend so if you're really really short of cash, it may be the way forward. But again, these places are hotly contested and you'll probably need a 1st class honours degree depending on the field.

When a friend of mine told me that he had to borrow £15k to do his Masters in Law, I baulked thinking it sounded a bit unreasonable, but actually looking into it, this isn't unreasonable. Course fees for many courses exceed £5k alone without any help offered.

I'm not sure why undergraduate degrees attract so much help and yet post-graduate degrees get none. Even a student loan would be helpful! It's not like you are going to earn particularly more with a Masters - it's what you do after this that usually makes the difference.

She wants to go (eventually) into academia, teaching students and doing research so it's not like she isn't going to give something back to the government - she'll never be entitled to a full goverment pension (My family are all academics and I was always taught that like any government job, wages are rubbish but the pension benefits are immense hence the reason they are now all on 2/3rds final salary pensions)

jerez

The info in Martin's newsletter is a bit out of date (shock, horror!). ILA Scotland now provides £200 grants to eligible students who are studying part-time, normally resident in Scotland, 16 or over and have a personal income of £22,000 per year or less.

If you are enrolled in a programme of credit bearing study you may qualify for an annual grant of £500. This is for part-time study only and you must be taking at least 40 credits per year.

There isn't much funding available for part time study but the Carnegie Trust is also worth looking at.

I think Wales may also have an ILA scheme but England doesn't.

supermum38

I managed to get a (independant) NCTJ journalism course funded through the job centre after I was turned down for another grant. I was unemployed (under a year) and a single mum. I had to prove that the course would lead to gainful employment (it included work experience) It was a long process (6 months) and meant I had put back the start of my course to the next term.To get this help I got a new deal advisor who made a "business plan" and sent the application to another department. The ceiling was £3,000 as over this amount requires a more in depth assessment. They do not publicise this help as it is limited and I only found out by being persistant and had tried all other avenues.
It is always worth talking to the job centre and using the words "is there any way I can get help to pay for this course".
I have now finished and managed to pass all my exams (at 38!) and applying for jobs all over the place. The future looks brighter.
Hope this helps?
Good luck to everyone.

carlih1

Hi,

I'd like to do a nail technicians course, this is a specialist course and not through a college and the fees are £545.00, does anyone know if there are any grants for this? I am 29 and a mother of three x

cockroach

hi iam presently studing BA hons Health and social care on a distance learning course with ICS
I am presently also on ESA BENEFIT is there any help i can get with funding this course
i am presently recovering from an accident and at some point will require another hip replacement normal college would not accept me due to the amount of time needed for hospital /pyhsio appointments etc

is ther any help i can recieve