If you went to uni in the 90s how much grant did you get ?

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Just curious how it compares

Oh and I spent some of my loan on a holiday to Lanzarote that I bought on Teletext 😁

1992-1995. I think £800 a term. I lived in catered halls and had £30 a week spends for 10 week term. I worked 9 hours a week to uni canteen. And worked all holidays in respite care unit. Single parent family so full grant. I took out the loan for £1000 in the last term to put towards mortgage deposit. And paid it off over first year of working.

None. Worked all my holidays and parents gave £200 a month i think.

Slightly earlier as I went to university in the 1980s - full grant was £2100 ish. Received £700 in term one and my catered accommodation was £350.

95 to 98, £1700 for the first two years, £1200 in the third as it wasn't supposed to cover summer. My parents topped up £50 per week as I wasn't allowed to work in term time, i did in the holidays. The also paid my rent but that was about 40 per week.

This was me too but I was a year later, 96-99. The last year without tuition fees. I worked in a bar to earn £50 - £75 week which was enough and my mum paid half my rent. It was doable - I had a good time!

97-2000 so just slid under the wire to avoid tuition fees. My grant was about £800 a term but college cost about £900 (inc meals). My parents gave me money each month and I worked pretty much full time during the holidays (the shop where I had my Saturday job kept me on a zero hours contract). I did odd bits of work during term time - waitressing, library work, assembling student cards, but helping the photographer at graduation was the best.

I went in 1998, having taken a gap year: had I gone straight from school in 1997, I would have had access to the full grants of around £1700 each year (both my siblings got that, as we had low parental income).

As it was, I got around an £850 grant for year one, and the other years it was full loan. That gap year cost me around £4500 in total!

ExH was in the glory days of the late 80s, and could also claim unemployment benefit in the summer holidays.

People saying they didn't get grants in the late 90s because they were gone by then, that can't be true, I went in the late zeros and got both a grant from student finance England which I think was about £3k a year and a grant from the uni for another IIRC £1.5K a year. The tuition fees were about £3k a year when I went. Then I worked on top and had the full student loan allocation.

Grants were phased out in the 90s, then reintroduced in the late 2000s.

I went 92-96, had a part time job 1st year, 2nd year abroad, 3rd year in industry.

I was central London and I have a vague memory of the grant being around £4k. I took out 2 years of loans and that went towards a house deposit.

I never repaid my loans, they got written off.

We were away at the same time. Identical situation for me (different jobs)

1990-1993. Grant covered my rent and that was about it. I worked weekends and all the vacations.

1997 - 2000. Full maintenance grant and fees paid by the LEA as my parents were separated. It was about £1800 per year but can't really remember. I think it covered my rent.

Intriguing to read all the different figures - some of us (quite possibly me!) must be remembering incorrectly. I had a full grant, late 90s, just before they phased them out. IIRC it was £1700pa. It didn't cover my catered, non-ensuite hall fees. I took a student loan as well, I think my total Student Loan borrowing over 3 years was about £6k.

From what my friends on a full grant said, the grant would have covered rent in most places and could also cover basic living costs if you chose a really cheap university town.

My 1700 in 95 wasn't the full grant, just what they'd give me based on parental income.

I got a grant the first year in 1998. Students who entered university on a deferral from 1997 got grants all the way through plus no fees.

Full grant. One of the last before loans came in. 94-98.

93-96, I lived at home, I got about half the grant and my parents topped up the rest. Google said full grant was £1.6k.

About 2k pa

Rent was £40 a week in shared accommodation

Student loan was 1.5k a year for living expenses, no tuition fees.

1999. Not sure but left with 10k of debt so guess that was it.

1998, I seem to remember about 1k for my first year only, as it then went 100% to student loans. Hall fees were £35 a week (up north, I picked the uni based on the cheapest halls), parents couldn’t afford to give me any money, worked 3 jobs to survive.

Well I didn't know that, every day is an education day 😄 I was very lucky.

None due to parental income.
My parents gave me exactly the amount of the basic maintenance grant. which was £300 a month. They were scrupulous about this and never gave me a penny extra, which was absolutely fair enough but meant that everyone I knew who actually had a grant was better off as their parents would give them little extras as and when they could.

My parents' money covered my rent including bills and then I could have either bought some course books (very book heavy course and the library never had anywhere near enough copies of set texts) or pasta and tomato puree ... So obviously I had a job and a loan.

I was very lucky obviously in that there were no tuition fees so my debt was small enough to pay off within a few years of working (I chose to pay it early).

Later I did a masters degree whilst working full time and my employer paid the fees. So very lucky as that's not as common now either.

In many EU countries without the UK's current expectation that almost half of 18 year olds go to university, university is of course still free at point of use...

It varied because my dad was self-employed and his income varied a lot. My parents were weird about money; they had separate finances, and it was always a high stress topic - so we never talked about how much I had and how much they should give me. I think I got around £400 for the first two terms and then £350 for the third.