Hi everyone. Thought this would be a good place to talk about my worries. I'm in the very early stages of my application for secondary English, have just registered with UCAS, am arranging school experience etc, but I'm a little confused about how the funding will work.
I rang Student Finance earlier today and if anything I'm more confused now!
What I can gather so far is:
1) English is a shortage subject but I have a 2:1 in a relevant degree so I should get access to the £15k bursary for 18/19 but
2) I'm not eligible for any student finance support because I've already received 1 round of SF support from when I did my degree in 2010-13.
That would be fine in itself, but what really threw a spanner in the works was that apparently, some subjects award bursaries based on SF eligibility. That bit is even on the Get Into Teaching website, in the small print.
"To receive a bursary or scholarship you must be entitled to support under the Student Finance England criteria."
So no SF funding = no bursary.
If I can't get any support at all, I may have to just delay everything! Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.