Why are Student Finance so bad. NHS Course. Poor.

Being on rolling placements does sort-of preclude getting a job... if you're only in the same place for a few weeks at a time, nobody's going to employ you for such a brief period of time! Assuming that is what the poster means.

lol - weak. Get a job.

Although its not glamorous quite a lot of student towns have hospitality jobs where you say when you can work and they will find you work within a specified area, so you choose when and where you work and can go months without working if you like. They are agencies and do the legwork in finding you shifts. Its not ideal but the struggle will be worth it when you are qualified. If you take evidence or receipts of the stuff you have bought for your course which has been essential to the finance department they might be a tiny bit more likely to give you some hardship money.

Are there no jobs at the SU? And can you get a summer job? Although, if my understanding is right, you're at uni for more of the year than most students?

I think this is inconsiderate. You cannot apply your circumstances to others. If the OP is living somewhere already with job shortages, it is likely that it will be very difficult to get a job with placement hours. I know that I have found this over the years and it's been so frustrating! But it is what it is.

So i'm already at Uni and this September will be the start of my second year.

As i'm am undertaking a health course, this is funded by the NHS, yay! (NOT).

Although my tuition fee's are paid for by the NHS and I get a bursary each month (which covers my rent all but £15.00) that isn't payable back, this means that my student loan that I have to live off is reduced to £2334.00 for the whole academic year which equates to about £40.00 a week.

Excuse me if I am wrong but i'm pretty sure this is actually less than job seekers allowance... seems VERY wrong when theres people out there doing **** all and getting more money than a lot of students on healthcare courses.


To top this all off... during my first year student finance messed up my award and paid me too much during first term as they had calculated my award as a 'normal' student and not an NHS student. This meant that the next two payments for the rest of the year were severely reduced leaving me in the **** as I had to pay for accommodation that I had signed up for, for the whole year. Consequently this meant going into my overdraft and maxing it out at £1500.00 leaving me with nothing as emergencies for the next two years.

So i'd really like to know how our **** government expect people to live off £40.00 per week for living costs (food, clothes, books, uni equipment in my case for clinics, travel etc...).

Getting a job also isn't practical for me as I work in clinics for work experience as my course is really demanding.

I don't know how to get around this?!!! Help please...

So if I'm doing medicine next year... I won't get the maintenance grant? :O

Student finance have to be one of the ****test bureacuratic organisations I have ever come across.
In fact I'm thinking of starting a thread just so people can let out their angst about how terribly run and executed student finance england is. They don't even deserve the capitalisation in Student Finance