Morning Philip

I couldn't agree more.   We are working on the lines of updating this year's
SLC eligibility questionnaire and sending this out in new student packs.
We don't feel we can wait until August.   I would strongly support any
request to SLC to produce their stationery earlier to help us all to plan
for what is obviously going to be a difficult start to the new academic
year.

Sylvia Brennan
Head of Student Support Services
Lancaster University
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> From: Philip Hinchliff
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> Subject: STUDENT LOANS STATIONERY 1998-99
> Date: 01 April 1998 09:02
>
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
> given all the wonderful excitements facing us all next academic year on
the
> fees front, we at Herts
> are looking at ways of expediting the student loans certification process.
> One problem could be the
> lack of information coming out of the Student Loans Company about the
likely
> arrival time of their
> 1998-99 stationery - I phoned them a day or so back, only to be told "we
> haven't thought about it".
>
> Given that the stationery normally arrives in August, this is too late for
> any universities who send
> out some of their final mailshots to new students before then & who might
> have thought about including the
> SLC's eligibility questionnaires in their mailshots to allow max time for
> pre-completion before the
> certification rush at enrolment.
>
> Has anybody thought about sending out questionnaires in advance?  if so,
is
> there merit in an approach to the SLC to see if they might be "persuaded"
to
> beef up their stationery production for next year?  I would
> be quite happy to make a request to SLC but it is possible that some
> institutions may have done
> so or are contemplating a higher-level approach to SLC (?).
>
> Or do you all wait until A level results are known before sending out your
> new student final mailshots -
> if so, there is less point to my idea but it may still be worthwhile to
get
> the SLC's stationery a bit
> earlier this year, to allow time to stuff student envelopes with blank
> questionnaires and maybe a
> "specimen" form as a guide
>
> Any views please
>
> thanks
>
> Philip
> Philip Hinchliff	Assistant Registrar (Student Finance)
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Hertfordshire,
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