Pgce following BA and MA

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My son completed his BA in 2022 with SFE tuition and maintenance loans and subsequently had a postgrad masters loan and completed his MA in October 23.
He is now applying for a PGCE in History to start in September 24 probably on a SCITT program. I believe he should qualify for student finance for this from what I’ve read and I think that it is sort of added to the undergrad loan rather than postgrad. Is this correct?
His undergrad loan was plan 2, but the new ones are plan 3, so would this additional loan mean he has 3 different loans that he’d have to repay concurrently, or just the two he already has? He won’t be able to do the PGCE if it means he would be required to pay back 3 loans! Please advise if you can. Many thanks

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Graeme SFE

Official Rep

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Original post by emmamaymurphy

My son completed his BA in 2022 with SFE tuition and maintenance loans and subsequently had a postgrad masters loan and completed his MA in October 23.
He is now applying for a PGCE in History to start in September 24 probably on a SCITT program. I believe he should qualify for student finance for this from what I’ve read and I think that it is sort of added to the undergrad loan rather than postgrad. Is this correct?
His undergrad loan was plan 2, but the new ones are plan 3, so would this additional loan mean he has 3 different loans that he’d have to repay concurrently, or just the two he already has? He won’t be able to do the PGCE if it means he would be required to pay back 3 loans! Please advise if you can. Many thanks

Hi there,

It's correct that PGCE courses attract undergraduate funding, that's right.

In terms of how exactly this will work we'd recommend messaging our Repayments team directly: they'll be able to confirm this.

You can message them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/messages/compose?recipient_id=806835849916719104 or Facebook: http://m.me/SLCRepayment - alternatively they are also available on the phone, their number is 0300 100 0611.

Thanks, Graeme

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emmamaymurphy

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Thank you

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