Fees and foreign colleges

brianthebard

Do you have to pay fees for all colleges in Wales, Scotland and England, or is it just England? Is there any way of avoiding fees?

Esmereldina

brianthebard wrote: »

Do you have to pay fees for all colleges in Wales, Scotland and England, or is it just England? Is there any way of avoiding fees?

I'm pretty sure it's all of them...
You could apply for funding/scholarship. There are different national funding bodies depending on the type of course For example, for humanities the big one would be AHRC, and as an non UK citizen you could apply for a fees only award (not a maintenance grant). Individual universities usually offer their own internal scholarships too. Most of the funding normally goes to research rather than taught masters students though.

Seraphina

brianthebard wrote: »

Is there any way of avoiding fees?

jesus way to phrase it. do you only do things if they're free? ffs is your education not worth a few grand? colleges need the money to expand their research and facilities and such, if everyone avoided the fees there'd be fook all money going in to education.

yeah you can apply for funding through the various councils depending on what course you apply for. the college you apply to should have details on fees/funding on their website.

Goldenquick

I've learned recently that the VEC fund Irish students going to study in England, it would be worth your while checking with your local VEC. It might be if the course is not available here and depending on your personal circumstances.

Goldenquick

Goldenquick wrote: »

I've learned recently that the VEC fund Irish students going to study in England, it would be worth your while checking with your local VEC. It might be if the course is not available here and depending on your personal circumstances.

I'd well be surprised if that's for postgraduate though. Undergraduate I can appreciate, but PG?

brianthebard

I found out recently that Scotland has gotten rid of fees, so I'll probably look at some Scottish colleges.

Seraphina-Screw you. If I could comfortably afford five grand on top of all the money I would have to spend on rent, food, etc then I wouldn't have any problem with fees. Obviously I don't have that sort of money lying around so I have to plan around that. I took a year out before I did my B.A so I could afford it and I'm taking one this year, (although I don't have a job yet) but its not your place to ask questions about my finances. I'd love to be able to afford to go to the best college that money can buy, but I have to plan more modestly than that.

justfortherecor

Scotland has not gotten rid of fees to my knowledge, unless this is a new rule applying to 2008/9 courses. I just started a Masters course for this academic year in a Scottish Uni and its certainly costing me a few grand in fees.

Esmereldina

justfortherecor wrote: »

Scotland has not gotten rid of fees to my knowledge, unless this is a new rule applying to 2008/9 courses. I just started a Masters course for this academic year in a Scottish Uni and its certainly costing me a few grand in fees.

Usually the free fees are an undergrad thing though. Though I'm sure the OP could find out easily enough by going to official website or whatever instead of asking random boardsies!

brianthebard

justfortherecor wrote: »

Scotland has not gotten rid of fees to my knowledge, unless this is a new rule applying to 2008/9 courses. I just started a Masters course for this academic year in a Scottish Uni and its certainly costing me a few grand in fees.

The new SNP government has brought it in, but they have only been in power for about 167 days, give or take, so it probably does relate to 2008/9, or perhaps foreign students are not exempt?

justfortherecor

Yes but surely it only applies to Undergrad courses. PG is usually different.

We're classed as "home" students AFAIK, all EU postgrads here paid the same fees as their UK counterparts.