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Student Cash: A Directory of Learner Funding Sources, 2009/10

Resources for advisers and students about money issues while at college and university


This book provides a comprehensive guide to sources of funding for all types of learner, including:

  • School pupils

  • Full-time students in further education

  • Part-time students in further education

  • Full-time students in higher education

  • Part-time students in higher education

  • Postgraduate students

  • Adult learners

  • Open and distance learners

  • Work-based learners

  • Job-seekers

  • Learners with disabilities

  • Learners with children

  • Learners from overseas

Each entry includes information about the type of scheme, amount of money available, eligibility criteria, application procedures, contact details and links to relevant funding organisations.

table of contents

Electronic copies are sent via email.

Printed copies are A4 size, bound with wire ring binder.

Learner Funding Sources, 2009/10 - Table of Contents

SECTION 1: FUNDING FOR SCHOOL PUPILS

  1. Travel expenses
  2. Free school meals
  3. Clothing grants
  4. Residential school trips
  5. The Education Maintenance Allowance (England)
  6. The Education Maintenance Allowance (Scotland)
  7. The Education Maintenance Allowance (Wales)
  8. The Education Maintenance Allowance (Northern Ireland)

SECTION 2: FUNDING FOR FULL-TIME FE STUDENTS

  1. Discretionary support funds
  2. Travel expenses (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
  3. Travel expenses (Scotland)
  4. City and Guilds Access Bursaries
  5. Adult Learning Grant (England)
  6. The Education Maintenance Allowance (England)
  7. The Education Maintenance Allowance (Scotland)
  8. The Education Maintenance Allowance (Wales)
  9. The Education Maintenance Allowance (Northern Ireland)
  10. Dance and Drama Awards

SECTION 3: FUNDING FOR PART-TIME FE STUDENTS

  1. Individual Learning Accounts (Wales)
  2. Individual Learning Accounts (Scotland)
  3. Career Development Loans
  4. Discretionary support funds
  5. Further Education Awards (Northern Ireland)

SECTION 4: FUNDING FOR FULL-TIME HE STUDENTS

  1. Maintenance Grant (England)
  2. Maintenance Grant (Northern Ireland)
  3. Assembly Learning Grant (Wales)
  4. Special Support Grant (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
  5. The Tuition Fee Grant (Wales)
  6. Tuition fee payments (Scotland)
  7. Student loan for maintenance
  8. Student loan for tuition fees
  9. University bursaries
  10. NHS bursaries
  11. Social work bursaries
  12. Access to Learning Fund (England)
  13. Financial Contingency Fund (Wales)
  14. Hardship Fund (Scotland)
  15. Support Fund (Northern Ireland)
  16. Fine and Performing Arts Awards
  17. Work placements
  18. Company sponsorship
  19. The Gilchrist Educational Trust
  20. The Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust

SECTION 5: FUNDING FOR PART-TIME HE STUDENTS

  1. University bursaries
    Access to Learning Fund (England)
    Financial Contingency Fund (Wales)
    Hardship Fund (Scotland)
    Support Fund (Northern Ireland)
    Individual Learning Accounts (Scotland)
    Career Development Loans
    Part-time grants
    Social work part-time bursaries
    Benefits

SECTION 6: FUNDING FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

  1. Research Council funding
    The Learning Through Work scheme
    Individual Learning Accounts (Scotland)
    Career Development Loans
    Association of MBAs Loan Scheme
    Professional Loan Schemes
    Social work postgraduate bursaries

SECTION 7: FUNDING FOR ADULT LEARNERS

  1. Adult Learning Grant (England)
    Adult Education Bursaries
    Career Development Loans
    Individual Learning Accounts (Scotland)
    Individual Learning Accounts (Wales)
    Adult Dependants’ Grant
    The Helena Kennedy Foundation

SECTION 8: FUNDING FOR OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNERS

  1. Individual Learning Accounts (Scotland)
    Disabled Students’ Allowances
    Career Development Loans

SECTION 9: FUNDING FOR WORK-BASED LEARNERS

  1. Time off for study or training
    Apprenticeships (England)
    Apprenticeships (Scotland)
    Apprenticeships (Northern Ireland)
    Apprenticeships (Wales)
    Skillseekers (Scotland)
    Trade union funding
    The Learning Through Work scheme
    Train to Gain
    The Graduate Teacher Programme
    The Registered Teacher Programme

SECTION 10: FUNDING FOR UNEMPLOYED LEARNERS

  1. Entry to Employment (England)
    Skill Build (Wales)
    Get Ready for Work (Scotland)
    Training for Success (Northern Ireland)
    Skillseekers (Scotland)
    Individual Learning Accounts (Wales)
    Individual Learning Accounts (Scotland)
    Training for Work (Scotland)
    New Deal

SECTION 11: FUNDING FOR LEARNERS WITH DISABILITIES

  1. Pathways to Work
    New Deal for Disabled People
    Residential training for disabled adults
    Work preparation programme
    WORKSTEP
    Access to Work scheme
    Disabled Students’ Allowances

SECTION 12: FUNDING FOR LEARNERS WITH CHILDREN

  1. Care to Learn (FE: England)
    Sixth Form College Childcare Scheme (FE: England)
    Childcare Support Funds (FE)
    Childcare fund (FE: Scotland)
    Further Education Awards (FE: Northern Ireland)
    New Deal for Lone Parents
    Free Childcare for Training and Learning for Work
    Tax credits
    Childcare Grant (HE: England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
    Parents’ Learning Allowance (HE: England, Wales, Northern Ireland)
    Lone Parents’ Grant (HE: Scotland)
    Childcare Grant for Lone Parents (HE: Scotland)

SECTION 13: FUNDING FOR LEARNERS FROM OVERSEAS

  1. Independent school scholarships and bursaries
    University scholarships and bursaries
    British Chevening Scholarships
    Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan
    Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme
    Overseas Research Students Award Scheme
    Royal Society Fellowships
    Marshall Scholarships
    Fulbright Scholarships