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AUG 00] COVENTRY UNIVERSITY NEWS
Coventry Mature Students Offered Extra Cash
Hard-up
mature students at Coventry Universty will be able to apply for extra
cash to help them through their studies following a government grant
of £108,000.
The
money has been given by the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE)
under the Access Bursary Fund scheme to provide financial assistance
to mature students.
This
is a nationwide scheme designed to help mature students with
dependents, particularly lone parents, to enter higher education, or
to assist those already studying.
Applicants
can receive up to £1,000, but they must be planning to study or
currently studying on a full-time undergraduate course, and have been
resident in the UK for at least three years before the course starts.
Categories
of applicants eligible for a bursary include those with:
- a
gross family income of less than £10,000 per annum
- a
partner in receipt of the Working Family Tax Credit
or
who are:
- in
receipt of benefit or whose partner is in receipt of means-tested
benefit
- in
receipt of the Lone Parents’ Grant
- claiming
allowances for dependent children
People
studying or intending to study a course funded by a non means-tested
NHS Bursary are not eligible to apply.
Caroline
French, Student Services Administration Manager at Coventry
University, said:
"This
scheme recognises that mature students with dependents have extra
costs that need to be met when coming into higher education, and the
bursary will go some way towards meeting those costs."
For
further information contact the Grants and Loans Office at Coventry
University on 024 7688 7215.
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