5. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students

• Bursary
• Grants for living costs

Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students may be able to get their tuition fees paid, as well as a bursary and grants for living costs.1saas.gov.uk/full-time/funding-paramedic-nursing-midwifery Application forms are available from Student Awards Agency Scotland (see Appendix 2).

A discretionary fund is also available.

 

1     saas.gov.uk/full-time/funding-paramedic-nursing-midwifery »

Bursary

If you are a paramedic, nursing or midwifery diploma or degree student, you can get a non-means-tested paramedic, nursing and midwifery bursary of £10,000. In the first year, an extra £60 initial expenses allowance is paid. For nursing and midwifery students, in the fourth year, the bursary is reduced to 75 per cent. Paramedic students get £10,000 for each of the three years of their course.

Grants for living costs

The following grants are available for your living costs:

•means-tested dependants’ allowance for a spouse, civil partner, partner, adult you have legal responsibility for who has a low income, or dependent child(ren). The allowance is £3,640 for an adult or first child, and £557 for each subsequent child (including a first child if the £3,640 is paid for an adult);
•single parent’s allowance of £2,303 if you are single, widowed, divorced or separated and bringing up children on your own;
•childcare allowance of up to £2,466 if you pay for registered or formal childcare;
•disabled students’ allowance (see here);
•travel expenses and ‘reasonable accommodation costs’ for placements (in Scotland only).