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<p>The current system for funding tuition fees for nursing, midwifery and allied health
professional students has enabled us to open up the number of training places that
universities can offer in these professions and to increase the amount of living costs
support available.</p><p>From September 2020, eligible new and continuing nursing,
midwifery and many allied health professional students on pre-registration courses
at English universities will also receive an additional new non-repayable grant of
£5,000 to contribute to their living costs. Funding up to a further £3,000 is also
available for students who choose to study in an area or a specialism that is struggling
to recruit students or for helping students with childcare costs. This funding is
in addition to the support that students can already access through the student loans
system and the existing learning support fund, which includes funding for childcare,
travel and exceptional hardship.</p><p>The government has also recently announced
that the maximum loan for living costs will be increased by 2.9% for the 2020/21 academic
year. It will be up to £9,203 for eligible full-time undergraduate students living
away from home and studying outside London (loan amounts are higher in London).</p><p>Maximum
tuition fees for undergraduate courses, and the subsidised fee loans available from
the government to pay them, will remain at £9,250 for a standard full-time undergraduate
course in the 2020/21 academic year. This is the third year in succession maximum
fees have been frozen.</p><p>Loans for tuition fees and living costs only need to
be repaid from the statutory repayment date. For most undergraduate students, the
statutory repayment date is the April after students finish their course. Monthly
repayments are linked to income, not to interest rates or the amount borrowed. Repayments,
which are calculated at 9%, are only on amounts earned over the repayment threshold,
which is currently annually £26,575. Borrowers are protected, as their repayments
decrease if their income decreases, with outstanding debt written off after 30 years.</p><p>
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