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Postgraduate funding - find grants, loans, studentships and scholarships.
Get a postgraduate master's loan to help fund a full-time or part-time master's degree: find out if you're eligible and how much you can get.
A Postgraduate Master’s Loan can help with course fees and living costs…
You can get up to: £12,167 if your course starts on or after 1 August 2023…
Whether you qualify depends on: your course your age your nationality or…
You can apply now for courses that start or started in the following…
You may qualify for other funding, for example grants from charities or…
You can learn more about the Postgraduate Master’s Loan on the Student…
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You can check if a degree you’re studying for is officially recognised. If…
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Apply for a Graduate route visa if you’ve been on a student visa and want to stay in the UK to work - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, bring your partner and children.
Postgraduate funding for overseas students studying in the UK: types of scholarship, eligibility, how to apply
Guidance on obtaining evidence of your qualification for employment, study, or professional registration.
Get a postgraduate doctoral loan to help fund a full-time or part-time master's degree: find out if you're eligible and how much you can get.
Sixth form, further education (like college), higher education (like university), apprenticeships and skills based training available.
Find and apply for a college or university course - full time, part time, post graduate, UCAS, Unistats, National Careers Service, Open University, CUKAS
Becoming an apprentice - what to expect, apprenticeship levels, pay and training, making an application, complaining about an apprenticeship.
Find the difficulty level of a qualification and compare qualifications across different countries.
Teacher training - funding for full or part-time teacher training courses including Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE)
This page provides information about the UK’s 3 main international scholarship programmes funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).
Information on what higher and degree apprenticeships are and a summary of upcoming opportunities for programmes starting in 2022.
Chevening Scholarships are the UK government’s global scholarships programme. Established in 1983, these scholarships support study at UK universities - mostly one-year Masters’ degrees - for students with demonstrable potential to become future leaders, decision-makers and opinion formers.
Analysis to consider the effect of the postgraduate master’s loans policy on protected and disadvantaged groups.
Guidance on claiming Universal Credit if you're a student.
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