Disabled Students’ Allowance: the 2026/27 forms are published
The Student Loans Company has published this year’s Disabled Students’ Allowance forms — the DSA1 and DSASL applications, the expenses claim and the disability evidence form. DSA is not means-tested and does not have to be repaid, it covers equipment, software, travel and non-medical help, and it takes weeks to assess, so applying before term rather than after is the difference between having support in October and in January.
Student Loans Company, 27 August
A university passes into private ownership
Lincoln Bishop University is becoming part of Global University Systems, a private education group, with the university’s own advisor setting out the case for private investment in a sector short of capital. For students there, the awarding body and the regulator’s conditions stay in place; what changes is who owns the institution and sets its strategy. It is the model several small universities are now considering.
Getting your head ready for the move, not just your boxes
A piece on the mental preparation for leaving home — cooking, laundry, living with strangers, and the quieter worry underneath about whether you will fit in. The useful part is that the anxieties are near-universal and rarely said out loud in freshers week. Homesickness covers what helps when it arrives.