Student Finance | Evolve Education

If you are someone with a disability, long-term health condition, mental health condition or specific learning difficulty (such as dyslexia) you can apply for:

Disabled Students' Allowance

https://www.gov.uk/disabled-students-allowances-dsas

Extra help if you're experiencing financial hardship

https://www.gov.uk/extra-money-pay-university/university-and-college-hardship-funds

You may also qualify for disability-related benefits.

https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled

Medical, social work and teacher training students

You can apply for:

NHS bursaries if you're studying certain medical, dentistry or healthcare courses

https://www.gov.uk/nhs-bursaries

Help with costs of travel to UK clinical placements if you're studying a medical, dentistry or healthcare course

https://www.gov.uk/travel-grants-medical-dental-students-england

Social work bursaries if you're a social work student

https://www.gov.uk/social-work-bursaries

Extra help if you're a teacher training student

https://www.gov.uk/teacher-training-funding

Students studying abroad

You might get a grant to cover some travel expenses if you usually live in England but study away from home.

https://www.gov.uk/travel-grants-medical-dental-students-england

Help from your university or college

Many universities and colleges offer extra money directly to students.

https://www.gov.uk/extra-money-pay-university

Funding from charitable trusts

Use the Turn2us grant search to check whether you qualify for funding from a charitable trust.

http://grants-search.turn2us.org.uk/

If you're a student from England, you can apply online for the following academic years:

2021 to 2022
2020 to 2021

You can apply for:

Tuition Fee Loans
Maintenance Loans
Maintenance Grants (only if your course started before 1 August 2016)

You can apply up to 9 months after the start of the academic year for your course.

https://www.gov.uk/apply-online-for-student-finance

Advanced Learner Loan

You can apply for an Advanced Learner Loan to help with the costs of a course at a college or training provider in England.

Loan eligibility does not depend on your income and there are no credit checks.

https://www.gov.uk/advanced-learner-loan

Student finance Higher Education

If you're studying full-time

You may be eligible for student finance if your course is in the UK and one of the following:

a first degree, for example, BA, BSc or BEd
a Foundation Degree
a Certificate of Higher Education
a Diploma of Higher Education (DipHE)
a Higher National Certificate (HNC)
a Higher National Diploma (HND)
an Initial Teacher Training course
an integrated master's degree
a pre-registration postgraduate healthcare course

Family Action's Educational Grants Programme: This service offers students, especially disadvantaged ones, over the age of 14, the chance to get grants of £200 to £300 to start or continue their education. You'll need to be studying at an affiliated college.

https://www.family-action.org.uk/what-we-do/grants/educational-grants/

Postgraduate funding

For master's courses starting after 1 Aug 2021, students are able to get a master's loan of up to £11,570. Doctoral-level students are eligible to apply for the doctoral loan of up to £27,265.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/students/postgraduate-loans/

http://www.thescholarshiphub.org.uk/

Scholarships and bursaries

There are nifty search tools on the Scholarship Search and Scholarship Hub websites – you'll be surprised at what's available. Some are very specific and are aimed at students from various backgrounds.

http://www.scholarship-search.org.uk/

https://www.gov.uk/student-finance/who-qualifies

Care to Learn

The Care to Learn scheme can help with childcare costs while you study. You must be aged under 20 at the start of your course. The scheme is available for publicly-funded courses in England. This includes courses in:

schools
sixth-forms in schools
sixth-form colleges

https://www.gov.uk/care-to-learn/applying-for-care-to-learn

Adult education budget

The Adult Education Budget (AEB) funds qualifications and programmes for learners aged 19+

To access this funding, you will need to identify a provider that offers AEB eligible courses.