Money, Grants and Bursaries | Student Advice Service

Grant available for arts and media students who are care experienced

Are you a final year student on an Arts, Media or Product Design (please note this list is not prescriptive) course and you need some additional money? Have you spent any time in the care of a local authority or you are care experienced? If yes, you could be eligible to apply for a non-repayable award of £350…

Action required by students who receive a Childcare Grant from Student Finance England and Wales

This is an important message for any student who gets a Childcare Grant payment from Student Finance England or Wales. The time has come for you to send your funding provider up to date information about your recent childcare costs. Marco Verch via Compfight You will have already sent in evidence of your actual childcare costs from the start…

Are you waiting to hear the outcome of a Student Support Fund application?

If you recently applied for the Student Support Fund and you’re waiting to hear the outcome, the processing time is currently 4 weeks. This is due to the increase in applications being submitted at this time. We have one more payment date before the end of term (Thursday 13th December) and after this date, there will…

Students travelling to placement – you may be eligible for help with the cost of travel

This is important information for teaching and health science students travelling to placement who are eligible to receive extra financial support to help pay for travel. Are you a Health Science student, who started your course on or after 1st August 2017? Midwifery, Nursing Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry. Are you receiving funding through Student Finance…

Are you worried about making ends meet this side of Christmas?

The university has additional funding available for students who find themselves in financial difficulty. The main fund is called the Student Support Fund and we typically receive in the region of 1000 applications throughout the academic year. Applications are open all year round, from September – June, and all Home and EU students receiving the full standard student…

Have you got a question about your student finance?

Have you been assessed but you think you should be receiving more? Have you been assessed but you’re not sure what it all means? Have you been assessed but you’re still waiting for your funding? Are you still waiting to be assessed and you need some help? The Student Advice Service can help with these questions…

Paying your fees in full by 1st November? You could be entitled to claim a rebate

Did you know that the university offers a rebate scheme for students who pay their tuition fees in full by 1st November? What is it? An incentive called the Early Settlement Discount which is part of the university’s Tuition Fee Discount Schemes. Effectively it is a 2.5% reduction of your annual tuition fees which is applied retrospectively once you have cleared your fees for the year. Who is eligible?…

Student Finance news for new Paramedic Practice students starting a course in 2018

We want to make sure our Paramedics are getting the maximum funding they are entitled to and as the funding arrangements for Paramedics has changed fundamentally this year, we know that there is some confusion around funding for this particular course. Here’s the summary…………… Tuition Fees – England domicile students should be eligible for a Tuition Fee Loan to…

Grants available for Arts and Media students who are care experienced

Important student finance information for continuing students

This is important information for undergraduate students eligible to receive student finance. Some things have changed since the start of last academic year 2017/18 which may affect you. When will you receive your funding? As long as you have received your 2018/19 notification of entitlement, re-enrolled online and you are progressing to the next academic year, you…