Other than what appeared in the article in THES on Friday, no. The article
says loans will be from autumn 2000, available to existing and new
part-time students on low incomes (what constitutes low incomes yet to be
determined), maximum 500 pounds per year, loan to be for course expenses
(eg books and equipment), students must be on courses involving at least
half the hours of a full-time course. It is aimed at mature students.
Quite how this will work in practice remains to be seen. Three immediate
questions:
(1) our part-time undergraduates have a varying completion time of between
5 - 7 years. In one or two of those years, therefore, they will not
necessarily be taking any course units at all. Will they be eligible for a
loan in that year?
(2) how do you ensure that the loan is spent in the way the Government
wishes it to be?
(3) what will the mechanism be? Via SLC or institutions?
Eleanor Martin
At 09:53 01/02/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Does anyone know anything about the new loan scheme for part time
>students which was announced on Friday? I came across it on the BBC
>news Internet page (http://news.bbc.co.uk/)but haven't managed to
>find out any further details. Any information gratefully accepted.
>
>Pam
>
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>Pamela Bell-Ashe
>University of Liverpool
>
>Chair
>Association of Managers of Student Services in Higher Education
>
>Tel: 0151 794 2243
>Fax: 0151 794 2249
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
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Eleanor Martin, Assistant Registrar, Academic Division,
UEA.
Tel. 01603 592205
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