Funding Masters

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Our DD has gained a place at LSE to study a Masters. Course fees are £18k and she's got £12k in student finance. We've spent some time looking at bursaries/grants etc., to top up the shortfall, but a lot of the funds are already closed. Has anyone got any pearls of wisdom?

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DS similarly refused our help with funding his master's. It was only when his girlfriend let slip that he was working two jobs while trying to write his dissertation that he accepted a "loan" from us for his remaining rent (no, we haven't asked for it back).

ds studied his Master's part-time, still working three days a week remotely, job based in England, university in Scotland. We told him if he ever needed any extra to come to us first, which he did for around £2k when the fuel crisis and rent rises occurred. He tried to pay us back but we, too, refused.

DH and I fully paid for our DC's master's (making up the difference between post-grad loan and costs.)

I took my first Masters when I was 30 and funded it through my salary, which by that point was easily done.