first child to university

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bestpud

topgearfan08 wrote: »

ive heard about this again that if you are the first child in a family to go to university you can get a one off free payment?

As I highly suspect this is not true, but could anyone confirm? If it is true, how do I go about getting this?

As the posts above say, it is dependent on the university you attend as grants of this nature would come from them and not student finance.

You need to check the web pages to see what they offer, or you could contact the student finance department and they'd tell you.

dogstarheaven

if your son/daughter has chosen a well-respected uni for an academic course (nothing like media studies, photography etc.,) then they will offer a high bursary to those coming from a lower income family. my daughter is at UCL and is studying maths and got herself a £3000+ bursary for free. this matches the same amount she'd get for her tuition fees. this has no bearing on whether she's got a parent who has studied at degree-level or not. i was v worried about the high-level costs of living in london, but she has managed to save money as she isn't your normal student spending her bursary and loan willy-nilly on constant partying (yes, she isn't normal :rotfl:cos i certainly wasn't like that when i was her age:D). UCL is part of the Russell Group of top uni's in the country and they're all v generous to help students out if their parents aren't so rich as others.
hope this reassures you, OP. just find out by looking on your son/daughter's uni website and it should tell you about their criteria for grants/bursaries... ring them up if you have any probs. just make sure that all your finances are in place as the SF would need to process this asap. i applied late-ish for mine but she still got her grant in time for sept last yr (but she was vv lucky as lots of her friends got theirs late and they sent theirs in as soon as SF requested this initially).