Student finance?

[chillipepper]

My wife works part time, I have a couple of thousand pounds savings, and I was wondering how much I could expect in student finance as a mature student, with break downs of loans/grants/busaries. Ball park figures are all I'm after. Also anyones experiencesof returning to Uniat 36yrs old to train for 4 years to become a teacher. Thank you for your time and comments.

[Ethel]

It's more likely to be loans than grants.

http://www.ucas.com/students/studentfinance/fi nancial_help/specific_help

Have you got a place yet? My friend will be completing her BA in English, Maths and Politics from Oxford this year and has already been told that the teacher training course she wants is giving priority to applicants with Masters because of the huge number of applicants.

[chillipepper]

Only just starting degree. I'm told there are fewer and fewer teaching places available but this is because everyone is heading that direction until the financial crisis turns around. By this time I should be well placed. Fingers crossed,eh? I've checked all the government sites and ucas info they tend to be very non commital. It was rough ideas, and peoples experiences I was interested in. Thanks though Ethal. x

[factor-fiction]

You can work it out on here. In addition there may be bursaries. Basically you are looking at loans to cover tuition fees of �3700 a year and a maintenance loan of approx �3000 a year. The best grant you can ohpe for is no more than �1500 pa

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/EducationAndLearni ng/UniversityAndHigherEducation/StudentFinance /index.htm