This section contains questions and answers on some of the things you might want to know. Most of the questions we get are from new undergraduate students who are on a full-time HNC, HND, degree or equivalent course.
Award Notice
- I have not yet received an award notice - what should I do?
- I have lost my award notice - what should I do?
- What do I do if I need someone to explain my award notice to me?
- How do I contact SAAS?
Bursaries
- What bursaries are available?
- Who can apply for a bursary?
- To get a bursary do I need to take a student loan?
- Do I have to pay the bursary back?
- How much will I get?
- How do you pay the YSB?
Disabled students
- I have a disability - can I get extra help?
- When can I apply for DSA?
- What is the closing date for applying?
- I will not be applying to you for a student loan or for my fees. Can I apply for DSA?
- How do I find out what equipment or other help I need?
- What do I do once I have bought all of my equipment?
- Can I buy different items/equipment to the ones that have been approved?
- I will be getting a dyslexia assessment by an Educational Psychologist. Who pays for the assessment?
- Do I need to send any supporting evidence to SAAS when I apply for DSA?
- Can I buy equipment before my course begins?
- What happens to the equipment when I complete my course?
- What if I transfer to another course and need different equipment?
- What does the DSA not pay for?
Income Assessment
Parents Income
- Do you take my parents income into account?
- Why do you take my parents income into account?
- How much do my parents have to contribute towards my support?
- What if my parents don't want to give you details of their income?
- What if I have no contact with my parents?
- Do you take redundancy payments into account?
Student's own income
- Do you take my income into account when you work out what I am due?
- If I work part-time while I study does this effect my support?
Lone Parents
- I am a lone parent, can I get any extra help?
- What do I have to do to prove that I am a lone parent?
Part time funding
- What support is available if I study part time or by distance learning?
- How do I apply for the fee grant?
Special circumstances
Previous Study
Repeat Years
Studying Abroad
Support
- Can I apply for support to do my course?
- If I am not eligible to apply to SAAS for support, where can I get support for my course?
- What kind of support can I get?
- How much support will I get?
- When can I apply?
- How do I apply for support?
- How will you pay my support?
- How much of my support do I have to pay back?
- When will I know how much money I will get?
Student loan for fees
- Can I apply for a student loan to pay my fees?
- How much can I apply for?
- How will you know what fees I'm being charged?
- How do you pay my fees?
- What if I don't want to take out a loan to pay my fees?
- When should I apply?
- When will I repay my fee loan?
Student loan for living
- How much student loan can I get?
- Do I have to pay back my student loan?
- How do I pay back my student loan?
- When do I start to repay my student loan?
- Do I pay interest on my student loan?
- How do you pay my student loan?
- I have not received my student loan payment schedule?
- I applied for the income-assessed loan but have been given the non-income assessed loan?