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At Newcastle, the mature students Bursary will be managed by the Childcare Co-Ordinator and the Access Fund Administrator (me!). The University has been running a Childcare Fund for many years and the Co-Ordinator uses an assessment form, which is similar to our Access application form, but much more detailed. This system will be tweaked to allow any students who are eligible to receive additional help through the Access route. We have already identified and informed existing students who will be eligible and are now in the process of writing to all new mature students and inviting those who are eligible to seek further information. We have used 'ordinary' Access Funds (soon to be relabled 'Hardship' Funds, of course) in the past to subsidise our own Childcare Fund. This has worked very well, because it has meant that we have been able to stretch the University Childcare Funds further amongst student parents who are not eligible for support from Access, such as overseas students. We have designed an extra sheet which will be added to the existing Childcare Fund application form and which will be used to assess students' eligibility for Access Bursaries. We wanted to keep things as straight forward as possible as, of course, the scheme will run for one year only. I hope that this helps. Please contact me again off list if you would like further details. Yours, Karin ======================= Karin Alderson Assistant Registrar (Welfare) Student Progress Office Registrar's Office University of Newcastle 6 Kensington Terrace Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU Tel: 0191 222 8668 Fax: 0191 222 8484 Email: [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Turnbull" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Cc: <[log in to unmask]>; "Joan Martin" <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 10:00 AM Subject: Mature Student Bursaries > Dear all > > We are currently planning for the new mature student bursary > scheme. > > Can other institutions, specifically those who are going to be > involved in the administration of the scheme i.e. finding prospective > students, inviting applications, processing applications and issuing > funds to students, give some feedback on how they intend to do > this? > > It will possibly be are intention to target local feeder colleges, > specifically access courses to locate prospective students. We > may also invite existing students to apply were we feel this to be > appropriate. Clearly it is in everyones interest to start the > application process as early as possible. > > Does anyone have an example of an application form to apply for > help from the fund? I know that we do not have to request detailed > income and expenditure forms, because the fund is not available for > for help towards general living costs. > > Perhaps we can pool resources and try to develop amongst the > HEI community a best practice approach? I am sure there is > enough expertise out there to accomplish this. The guidance from > the DFEE is often vague. Possibly it is meant to be so to allow a > certain amount of flexibility in the administration of the fund! > > Any comments relating to the general administration of the fund > would be most welcome. > > I look forward to hearing from you all. > > Regards > > > > > J N Turnbull ([log in to unmask]) > Student Finance and Data Protection Compliance Officer > Chester College of Higher Education > The views expressed are those of the > individual and not necessarily those > of the college, unless stated otherwise. > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%