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Briefly to deflect eyes from SLC, may I seek advice/views on US Loans - specifically "Foreign School Program Participation Agreement" (PPAs, as we all know them). Anyone still reading at this point may share my recent experience. Assorted documents arrived yesterday from the US Department of Education, two to be signed by the Vice-Chancellor, which indicate that we have *temporary recertification* because "This institution's recertification application was not received in time to be recertified by the statutory deadline of July 23 1997 ...". We received huge amounts of paper from the US ED in mid-April 97, with a deadline 10 days from that receipt, which we finally missed by 2 days (having already indicated that we couldn't possibly gather all the evidence they required in 10 days). I've faxed them (fed up with an entirely irrelevant telephone answering maching message) to say that I'm far from being happy teddy and will they please review the matter urgently (a cheerful porker just flew past my window). Anyone else in the same boat (partly disabled, but managing to stay afloat - if not actually butting through the channel)? Festive felicitations, despite all that. ---------------------- Stephen V Duggan Assistant Registrar University of Aberdeen King's College Aberdeen AB24 3FX tel (+44) 1224 272051 fax (+44) 1224 272041 [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%