Been refused tuition fee loan, need advice

Hello everyone,

I was hoping to go to university this September but recently been refused to get my tuition fee loan from SFE. I have no option but to hold it off until next year as I can't afford to pay 9000 pounds by myself. Therefore, I would like to ask you for advice as to what I should do.

First of all, do any of you have any experience with getting financial support from any institutions other than SFE? Do you happen to know if there are any organizations that deal with providing students with money for the course?
Or perhaps I should take a loan from a bank, do you know anything about it?

Secondly, is it possible to take a gap year before the course even began in a way that I wouldn't have to re-apply next year and get through the whole process from scratch?

Lastly, the main reason why I didn't get the funding is because I studied for 2 years before in another country and that stops me from getting it for the first year, though the funding for all the other years is available for me. Question is - what if re-apply for financial support from SFE without mentioning the fact that I studied previously? They might be able to get access to my previous application and see that, in fact, I did study before. How likely is that?

What would you recommend doing?

Thank you in advance for reading this post and for your responses. Every piece of advice will be appreciated.
Filip.

Hello everyone,

I was hoping to go to university this September but recently been refused to get my tuition fee loan from SFE. I have no option but to hold it off until next year as I can't afford to pay 9000 pounds by myself. Therefore, I would like to ask you for advice as to what I should do.

First of all, do any of you have any experience with getting financial support from any institutions other than SFE? Do you happen to know if there are any organizations that deal with providing students with money for the course?
Or perhaps I should take a loan from a bank, do you know anything about it?

Secondly, is it possible to take a gap year before the course even began in a way that I wouldn't have to re-apply next year and get through the whole process from scratch?

Lastly, the main reason why I didn't get the funding is because I studied for 2 years before in another country and that stops me from getting it for the first year, though the funding for all the other years is available for me. Question is - what if re-apply for financial support from SFE without mentioning the fact that I studied previously? They might be able to get access to my previous application and see that, in fact, I did study before. How likely is that?

What would you recommend doing?

Thank you in advance for reading this post and for your responses. Every piece of advice will be appreciated.
Filip.

You could look into a Professional and Career Development Loan available from Barclays and Co-operative I think. Also look into grants and such...
try sites such as The Scholarship Hub