Previous study
Support will be available for the length of your course, plus one extra year if needed, less any years of previously supported higher education study. Even if your income prevented you from getting help with tuition fees for previous courses, you would have benefited from public funding. The personal contribution to tuition fees represents only about a quarter of the average cost of a course.
Further support will not generally be available to students who have used up their entitlement to funding. However, maintenance loans will continue to be available to students who do not already have an honours degree from a UK institution and to students who have an honours degree and who are on a course leading to certain professional qualifications. These include medical doctor, dentist, veterinary doctor and architect.
Supplementary grants such as disabled students allowance,
parents learning allowance, adult dependants grant and childcare
grant are not affected by previous funding.