Student Finance Help!

Gall1987

Gall1987

Gall1987

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Hi everyone.

I have recently applied for finance for 2010/2011 and I'm awaiting the notification to sign and send back, but I'm not sure if I've done it correct.

I want to apply for the maximum available, but it did not ask me to provide an income details. (I'm a mature student but living with 'rents still).

It says that I'm eligible for £3564.00, but then says £0 for income assessed loan and £0 for loan assessed by living costs. Is this correct?

Also, how do I go about applying for the maintenance grant and Uni bursaries?

Thanks for any help :)
 
Whole thing is a mess, they have underpaid me hugely.

Keep ringing em.
 
Yea I get Sept/Jan/April payments too.

Salford Uni BRAP! onelove innit
 
sr4470 said:
Not the university, no. It isn't Russell Group though is it? For all I know it could be perfectly good but because it isn't RUG its automatically not good enough for certain employers' graduate schemes.
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Russell Group? No :p

It's a great Uni for a lot of things and really bad for others, like a lot of unis.

Snobbery though, howd you mean? Salford is a very very rough place.
 
sr4470 said:
Not the university, no. It isn't Russell Group though is it? For all I know it could be perfectly good but because it isn't RUG its automatically not good enough for certain employers' graduate schemes.
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I don't think I'd want to work for an employer with that attitude though to be quite honest.

Obviously I'd go a RUG Uni, if I could get in but the ones at looked at didn't do the course I wanted to do so didn't even send an application to one.
 
Thorpy said:
Russell Group? No :p

It's a great Uni for a lot of things and really bad for others, like a lot of unis.

Snobbery though, howd you mean? Salford is a very very rough place.
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Snobbery from other folk telling you Salford's rough and crap. Sorry if I wasn't being clear. I'm studying a course with Kingston if that makes any odds. Maybe it's just a London thing.

Gall1987 said:
I don't think I'd want to work for an employer with that attitude though to be quite honest.

Obviously I'd go a RUG Uni, if I could get in but the ones at looked at didn't do the course I wanted to do so didn't even send an application to one.
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They're more academically focused, and want the traditional A-levels etc. My experience logically leads me away from that to something industry-focused to leverage what I already know. Frankly at the age I'll be graduating I doubt I'll be considered for graduate schemes.
 
Thorpy said:
Russell Group? No :p

It's a great Uni for a lot of things and really bad for others, like a lot of unis.

Snobbery though, howd you mean? Salford is a very very rough place.
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Isn't Salford quite nice in certain places and terrible in others?

Where would you recommend staying while I'm there? I don't fancy the Castle Irwell accommodation.

Has anyone studied any Computer related courses at Salford? Any views on it would be great. I've got to say it was the best open day I've been compared to all the others and I went 8.
 
sr4470 said:
Snobbery from other folk telling you Salford's rough and crap. Sorry if I wasn't being clear. I'm studying a course with Kingston if that makes any odds. Maybe it's just a London thing.
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Kingston Uni? Spent a day there with French students, my Uncle teaches English all over the world and did a 6 month jobby there. Tell you what, there are some rich folk down there.

And yea people say Salford is crap, I could easily say their Uni is the same but i don't study there so i cant pass judgement.

Swings and roundabouts, doesn't bother me. Salford is ace :cool:

I couldn't go to uni's such as Kingston, not my game at all.

Edit: Don't know anything about the computer courses here, sorry!

Edit again! :D Castle Irwell, its where the parties are at ;)

Party central: Irwell, Bramall. Sometimes Eddie C and John L.

Posh/Quiet: IQ, Horlock/Constantine. Eddie C and John L
 
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I don't get my next instalment till 18th when my term starts. I also had a letter telling me i can't apply for 2010-2011 until the 28th jan.

When i applied for my 2nd year though, they first sent a letter which was not means-tested, but then about a month later they sent through the plan means-tested. Bit of an odd system but according to the bloke on the phone, that is how it is done.
 
Thorpy said:
Kingston Uni? Spent a day there with French students, my Uncle teaches English all over the world and did a 6 month jobby there. Tell you what, there are some rich folk down there.
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Yup, but it has a lot of homeless folk if the shelter I worked at is any indication. I don't have lectures at the local campuses though and thus don't live in Kingston. Technically it's part of Surrey (the council are headquartered there).

Thorpy said:
And yea people say Salford is crap, I could easily say their Uni is the same but i don't study there so i cant pass judgement.

Swings and roundabouts, doesn't bother me. Salford is ace :cool:
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Spent very little time in the Greater Manchester area myself so I couldn't really say.

Thorpy said:
I couldn't go to uni's such as Kingston, not my game at all.
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Didn't really look at the institution, it was the course I was interested in. The college I applied to for an apprenticeship suggested it as an alternative because placements are rarer than hen's teeth. In the end I decided to go for the degree route because jobhunting wasn't getting anywhere.

Not sure many CompSci courses cover the innards of laser printers or router configuration in their first semester, I think it's a fairly unique approach to IT in an undergraduate degree. Throwing in vendor qualifications is helpful, because they're expensive for someone like me.
 
Get yourself to Salford, cheap beer and sketchy pubs. Rock n Roll.
 
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