Student Finance

Students in England can now sign up to the Student Finance England mailing list and get an email when applications for the 2022/23 academic year open. The invitation to sign up comes with just weeks to go before the UCAS application deadline for undergraduate courses on 26 January 2022.

Full-time students studying for an undergraduate degree at a university in England will be charged no more than £9,250/yr in tuition fees in the 2022/23 academic year, the UK Government has confirmed. It means it's the fifth year in a row that fees have been frozen. 

Student loan interest rates will drop for many from September, the Department for Education has confirmed. Plus, from April 2022, Scottish former students and some others with older loans will also be able to earn more before they have to start repaying.

A new online student loan repayment service will launch in 2020 to give graduates more up-to-date information about their loans, largely replacing paper statements.

Tens of thousands of university leavers risk wasting big money – in some cases over £20,000 – by voluntarily paying off their student loan even though the amount they earn means they don't need to, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal.  

MoneySavingExpert.com, together with the Russell Group of universities, is calling on the Government to scrap the current student loan statement, after 90% of respondents to our poll question said our redesigned version of the statement helped them understand the student loans system. 

Almost 90% of applicants to a fund for students in financial difficulty in Scotland have been accepted in the last three years – with each being given over £900 on average, according to data obtained by MoneySavingExpert.com.

University leavers reclaimed more than £560,000 from the Student Loans Company in December - a huge spike compared to the year before.

The Government today formally restarted the process of selling off English student loans, after a delay of several months due to the general election. Here's what you need to know if your loan's being sold off.

Labour peers have joined the battle against the retrospective hike in student loan repayments, with the Higher Education and Research Bill going through its second reading in the House of Lords this afternoon.