student funding

[taimatsu]

argh! a random university website tells me that for students who have previously withdrawn from a degree course in their second or subsequent year, funding for a new course will be witheld until they reach the same point in the new course as they did in the old. That means I'd get nothing till the final term of my second year. Argh! must find out if this is correct!

Update: Can't find info on that at the moment, but worse news; I won't count as a mature or independent student, so my hopes of financial independence from my parents are dashed. I'd have to be over 25, or have supported myself for three years, or be married, or an orphan.

Argh. Scuppered. Now what do I do? I wanted to be self-supporting and independent so that I did not feel obliged to involve my parents' opinions in my decision-making because they were supporting me. But it seems unless I want another two and a half years or so I can't avoid having their income assessed when my financial support is calculated, which means I will get the minimum loan and no help with fees. Therefore I won't be anle to manage at all without their help. AAAARGH. Damn it!

Comments

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

There are often grants available for a small number of people in a specialist area to do university courses[1] -- maybe it's worth checking whether there might be such a thing could apply to you? Don't nkow if there's a centralised listing, though.

[1]Eg. the Fiffney-Waffle grant for women of asian origin from Loughborough to study mechanical engineering, etc., etc.

[taimatsu]

I believe there exists a Directory of Grant-Making Trusts, and when the time comes I will certainly look at it :)