Medical students cannot borrow for living costs in their final two years
Leeds medical students have described sleeping in the library to manage their bills, and are calling for full maintenance support: medical degrees run longer than the standard funding, and in the final two years students move from the maintenance loan to an NHS bursary that is worth substantially less. The same applies to dentistry. If you are heading into those years, the hardship fund at your university is the first thing to apply to. Student finance explained covers the switch.
A new chair for the Student Loans Company
The Department for Education has appointed Gary Page as chair of the Student Loans Company, which administers the loans of nearly every student in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Board appointments rarely change anything a student sees, but they are made at a moment when the organisation is preparing to run an entirely new funding system from January 2027.
Student Loans Company, 11 February
Saying what you learned, in words an employer understands
A new guide addresses the thing that trips graduates in applications: describing a degree in terms of what you can now do rather than what you studied. The translation work — from module titles to demonstrable capability — is what separates two applicants with the same result. How to write a graduate CV covers doing it.