WHERE/HOW to start??!?! Help!

I'm already working but I can't save that much money!! It's easy to say...

Unfortunately, they only thing I can suggest is, as already mentioned, working as long as necessary before you have enough to pay for the course you like. There are almost no scholarships out there for master's degrees, even less if you are not a UK resident (you would have to live in the UK for three years to become a resident, I believe). The other option is to go for a PhD, which should normally be funded by a research council or your university/department. There are some 'special' scholarships such as Gates at Cambridge and the like, which may be worth checking out (but the deadline for 2012 is already over), but bear in mind that the competition is fierce and you won't stand a chance unless you graduated with a top grade at an elite institution.

It is stiff and top grades are necessary, but the elite institution bit isn't. I know someone who got a Cambridge scholarship (I think it was a Cambridge Overseas Trust one but not sure) for an MPhil, from undergrad at a uni ranked around 500 globally (he subsequently did his PhD at Cambridge too). Obviously your personal statements and references for such funding is key too, not just the grades. My friend was in the sciences though and apparently funding is easier to get for that?

That being said a quick look the this year's Rhodes scholars (for Americans only?) indicates that at least half of them attended schools such as Yale, Harvard, Stanford.

Rhodes scholarships are not only for Americans - if you look at the link I posted somewhere on the Rhodes Scholars thread there is a fuller list of the scholars, and I am sure you will not recognise the names of most of the universities that many of the non-US scholars graduated from

Also if I may be pedantic, even looking only at the US, half does not mean all need to be from elite schools!