Chapter 5: Postgraduate student support
This chapter covers:
2. Postgraduate loans for master’s degrees (
here)
3. Postgraduate master’s bursaries in Wales (
here)
4. Postgraduate loans for doctoral courses (
here)
5. Disabled students’ allowance (
here)
6. Postgraduate support in Northern Ireland (
here)
Basic facts
– Students on postgraduate courses of initial teacher training (eg, a PGCE) can apply for financial support in the same way as undergraduates.
– English and Welsh students may be able to receive a bursary for postgraduate study in social work, but this is not available to Northern Irish students studying in England or Wales.
- Individual scholarships or ’studentships’ are available from seven research councils, but the demand far outstrips supply and funding is not guaranteed.
– Non-means-tested loans are available for students normally resident in England, Wales or another European Union country to assist with the cost of certain postgraduate courses (subject to the changes in residency rules following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU).
– Disabled postgraduates may be able to get help with ther additional costs of learning through the disabled students’ allowance.
– A non-means-tested postgraduate loan for tuition fees is available for students from Northern Ireland.