it used to be that you could apply for one loan per term... but then - I was at uni when you still got a grant for being poor and your fees were paid by a kindly benevloent government, students still ate beans on toast all year, most of them read the socialist worker and were'nt basically hacket wearing, ibiza lolling, tarted up fucking posh cunts in waiting.

http://www.slc.co.uk/contact%20us/index.html

call these, it changes so much! but i would advise to either borrow as much as you can because you are never going to get as good an interest rate deal again (over a long period)

......or borrow the bare minimum to survive - i still havn't made a dent in what i borrowed and the interest per year just adds on and on and on.

Choose carefully

Ha! borrow as much as you can. You're never going to get another loan at such a good rate. you can always put it aside in a long term savings account and earn interest, oh no you can't do that anymore, the economy is fucked.

lets put it this way, I still can defer my old loan from the 90's and I earn a reasonable amount. I pay 80 something a month on my new loans.

depends what you're studying. if it's an arts and humanities subject you can probably earn enough doing a crap job that no one else wants to do over your holidays. if it's a business degree you should be able to work out some sort of scam to pay off your debts before anyone notices, then get a job in a soul less company somewhere. if it's nursing, take the money and run; you don't get holidays and you might as well just grab as much money as you can.

Your girlfriend's ex boyfriend wrote:

i'm in the process of getting my student loan sorted... anyone know much about 'em? what's the most you can get to live off?... like not your tuition fees... can you apply for more than one?

non-means tested gets you about 3100 per yr. you're entitled to more depending on your parent's income. you get less if you live at your parents home.

you only pay it back when you start earning more than 20k per yr. best thing is to get the max.

btw, the student the student loan people are fuckwits who ALWAYS seem to make mistakes every year with me!