Student Finance & Benefits

This site tells you what financial help is available if you decide to enter higher and further education

Visit this site for the lowdown on student life including finances, housing, safety, security and healthcare.
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Directgov - Extra help with study costs if you're over 16

If you decide to continue your education after 16, you can get help with the cost of your studies in a number of ways. Find out more in thius website.

Directgov - Student finance

Whatever your questions about managing your money while you're at uni, or applying for funding, this helpful site has got it covered.

Directgov - University and Higher Education

This site explains your options for further study, and tells you how you may be able to get funding.

Foundation Degrees - Higher Education

Foundation degrees are degree level qualifications designed with employers and combine academic study with workplace learning to equip people with the relevant knowledge, understanding and skills to improve performance and productivity This site has useful links to a number of other sites that will help you find out more about the Foundation Degrees available and how to access them.

Learner Entitlement

The website is designed to give you clear, honest and impartial information, advice and guidance that will allow you to make your own decisions on your future.

Hot Courses Online Database

Search for courses all over the country with this really useful web site. Amazingly, you can search through over 500,000 courses.

Lifelong Learning

Although devised for people taking out a career development loan, this site from the Department for Education and Skills contains a print out budget planner for calculating your outgoings.

Student Loans Company

The Student Loans Company (SLC) is a UK public sector organisation established to provide financial services, in terms of loans and grants, to over one million students annually, in colleges and universities across the four education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales..

SureStart

Would you like to enrol on a course of some kind, but are worried about the costs? This website will help find out if you might be entitled to some funding.

Unimoney

Don't let lack of money be a barrier to higher education. Find out about all the help on offer on this website