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Student loans are paid by the Student Loans Company [2] but students apply for their loan through SAAS. Any eligible student can apply for the minimum loan regardless of their income. The maximum loan is income assessed. The maximum loan that a young student can receive is £5,750, and the maximum loan for an independent student is £6750.
The Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland Scheme was up and running by summer 2005, applying to those who graduated that year. [3] Opposition towards the scheme was voiced by some English universities which felt that the scheme gave Scottish universities a competitive advantage in terms of attracting students from overseas. [4]
Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (Payments out of Grants for Housing Support Services) Amendment Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/108) Rural Stewardship Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/109) Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/110)
For the 2009/2010 academic year, students from England and Wales were entitled to a grant of up to £2,906; students from Scotland £2,105; and students from Northern Ireland £3,406. [19] Maximum maintenance grants in England were frozen at 2009/10 levels in academic years 2010/11 and 2011/12.
The Trust intends such scholarships to be the "premier award in Scotland" and they are generally more generous awards than the equivalent from a Research Council. The scheme is highly competitive: although the number of scholarships awarded each year is not fixed, it is usually around 12–15, and the number of applicants is usually many times ...
Education in Scotland; Logo of the Scottish Government: Education Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Government; Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills: Jenny Gilruth MSP: National education budget; Budget: £2.6 bn [2] Per student: £3,855 (2004–2005) [1] ‡ General details; Primary languages: English, Scottish Gaelic, Scots ...
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) (Welsh: Lwfans Cynhaliaeth Addysg; LCA) is a financial scheme applicable to students aged between sixteen and nineteen and those undertaking unpaid vocational or non-university academic learning in the United Kingdom (except England) and whose parents had a certain level of taxable income. It is no longer ...
The National 5 Maths exam, sat on 12 May 2016, in particular Paper 1 (non-calculator), was also criticised by students after being considered much more difficult than previous years. A petition was created by students which was to be sent to the SQA demanding to know why the exam was exceedingly difficult, and it gained over 25,000 signatures. [18]