Coronavirus (COVID-19): student hardship - case studies: report

Footnotes

1.  https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/resources/covid-19-and-students-survey-report

2.  Including organisations specifically focussed on supporting students.

3.  HESA define international students according to various categories including other European Economic Area (EEA) countries (e.g. Iceland, Norway), other European countries (e.g. Albania, Belarus, Turkey) and non-EU: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/definitions/students

4.  EU students are defined by HESA as those students whose normal residence prior to commencing their programme of study was in countries which were EU members as at 1 December of the current reporting period: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/definitions/students. Although for funding purposes SAAS define eligibility for funding as an EU graduate more broadly (e.g. including EEA countries and Switzerland): https://www.saas.gov.uk/full-time/eu-student-funding-full-time

5.  Not specified whether this was purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) or other private sector rented accommodation (e.g. flats, houses).

6.  However asylum seekers studying FE courses can access funding for emergency travel / study / childcare costs from college FE discretionary funds.

7.  Within the timescales of the project it was unfortunately not possible to seek responses from colleges – see section 2.3.

8.  It is noted that Discretionary Funds are classed as non-repayable monies (not grants or loans, which are provided by SAAS / SLC) so some interviewees may have misunderstood the nature of the support they received from their institution.

9.  Ibid.

10.  It is noted that EU students cannot access living cost support from SAAS, only an EU fee award.  So these interviewees may have misunderstood the nature of the support they had received from SAAS.