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£5000-£8000 uni GRANT 2020!!

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Nutter50028 · 22/12/2019 20:56

It’s official! All Nurse midwifery and other allied health professions students will receive a uni grant of at least 5000 from 2020! Also including those in their 2nd/3rd year of their degree too, Now Student nurses will be able to study and do training without having to struggle financially seeing it’s difficult to train and maintain a job too! Super doops!

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pointythings · 22/12/2019 21:53

Yeah, it's great. Hmm After they made nurses pay fees in the first place and abolished the bursary, they're now handing back a few pennies of what they took away. How great. We should bow low before the great Tory party.

Fuck that.

HoneysuckIejasmine · 22/12/2019 21:58

They shouldn't have taken it away. I'll be happy when we get back to the old situation. I'll celebrate if they improved on what was there before.

Signed, someone who wants to retrain but can't afford to. Even with £5k pa.

VivaLeBeaver · 22/12/2019 22:09

As well as the 5k-8k grant students will still have access to the usual student loans system for a maintenance loan as well as for fees. So an extra 5k-8kish there (less if living at home).

tenredthings · 22/12/2019 22:29

Are you employed by the Tory propaganda dept. Nutter ?

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Nutter50028 · 22/12/2019 22:37

@tenred to be honest I’m starting my nursing course 2020 September and I had just found out about the grant so up until few days ago I was worried about how financially strained I will be studying, having to cut down my hours at work so finding out about this has shined a positive light towards my studies better than nothing at all!

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raviolidreaming · 22/12/2019 22:44

Yeah, it's great.After they made nurses pay fees in the first placeandabolished the bursary, they're now handing back a few pennies of what they took away. How great. We should bow low before the great Tory party. Fuck that

Exactly. They took it away so people would be grateful when they got anything back.

ChickenTikkaTellMeWhatsWrong · 22/12/2019 23:02

I'll be in my second year of children's nursing in September 20, so I am pleased about this.
Does anyone know how it works, is it paid in one lump sum, or monthly instalments?

Andysbestadventure · 22/12/2019 23:08

How about pay them for their placements 🤷‍♀️

Just a thought.

VivaLeBeaver · 23/12/2019 06:25

If it’s like the old grant it will be monthly instalments.

2020theteendrink · 23/12/2019 06:31

What about Social workers. Are they getting the bursary reinstated.

I've said for a long long time removal of bursaries would be inhibiting to people starting courses. Recruitment suffers too. I'm glad they are listening but more work still needed.

When I was a student on tax credits I was ok. These days on UC you are screwed.

TheFairyCaravan · 23/12/2019 06:35

Does anyone know how it works, is it paid in one lump sum, or monthly instalments?

DS2's bursary was paid in 3 or 4 payments across the year

orangejuicer · 23/12/2019 06:35

It's only in England.

ChilliMayo · 23/12/2019 06:37

I'd rather see free training, a yearly salary equivalent to NLW with a commitment to six years NHS service.
Mind you, I am an old gimmer who also sees some value to the old SRN/SEN system, don't mind me.

speakout · 23/12/2019 06:40

Nursing bursaries were never abolished in Scotland. University fees are not charged either.
Next year DD will recieve £10K bursary as a nursing student- non means tested, and doesn't have to repay.

Means she will have completed her degree course without borrowing a penny.

bruffin · 23/12/2019 06:43

Yeah... because it only costs £5k p.a. to live doesn't it?
It's a lot more than dd qualified to live on in the welsh NHS bursary or would have got under the old English NHS bursary. She was getting 3400 maintenance.

Dontdisturbmenow · 23/12/2019 06:48

Nurses (and other NHS technical specialists e.g. radiographers) should have all their fees paid and an annual cost if living payment of about £10k. They work ridiculously long shifts for nothing atm. It's outrageous to expect them to do this
Many professions work ridiculous long shifts. Nurses and others currently do so mainly because of the vacancy rate. The intention to raise back the number of nurses and allied healthcare, so that they don't have to work long shifts again.

I think this £5,000 is a good incentive to get people to study in these professions again that are at crisis point, but I don't agree that they should have all their studies funded at of principle that they work harder than others.

lifeisgoodagain · 23/12/2019 06:55

That's excellent and actually means it is possible for me to consider training ... I couldn't afford to be incomeless, but I can live on £5k plus £3k live at home loan.

We3kingsoforientareandabump · 23/12/2019 07:10

@2020

Social work students get the bursary too

Sceptre86 · 23/12/2019 07:19

It is good news however as pp have said look at it in a wider context. They took away bursaries got allied hcpc, they saw a dip in recruitment and have no reintroduced them but at a lower rate. It will still be useful to kids who go straight from college to uni and live at home to reduce costs but for those that are further away it will quickly get eaten up. People on such courses should receive a higher rate of bursary as shift work makes it increasingly difficult to get other paid work.

stargazer2030 · 23/12/2019 07:37

What about the ones who have missed out. My dd is in her 3rd year so completely missed out for any support. I am so pissed off with the system. She will be about 45k in debt and honestly some of them get treat like dirt on placement (not all).
They are also expected to take placements up to 2 hours travel time so 12 hour shift plus 4 hours travel!!!!

Moooooooooooooooooo · 23/12/2019 07:39

I wonder how long the bursaries and free tuition for Scottish student nurses etc will last if Scotland does ever gain independence. Could be quite interesting that.

Jeansforme · 23/12/2019 07:42

It won’t last in Scotland as they wouldn’t be able to afford it. If they get independence, all the free stuff will have to go

Dowser · 23/12/2019 07:43

My son has just started his access to nursing course
He’s got three boys
He’s grateful for anything as he starts uni in September...well if he passes the interview
So far he’s had distinctions this term so 🤞

Bipbipbipbip · 23/12/2019 07:47

Imagine if they hadn't taken away the bursaries in the first place....

Former admissions officer here - it made very little difference to students straight out of college but the drop has been with people returning to education who didn't want to take on loans or who wouldn't get the full amount due to partner's earnings. I can't see £5k will be enough to cover outgoings for many of those people.

GailCindy · 23/12/2019 07:49

I was going to start nursing in 2007 but childcare was too much of an issue. Back then I would have got paid to do the course (rent plus living expenses and childcare) and came out with a diploma which I could top up to a degree after I qualify.