{"id":704,"date":"2015-12-09T12:45:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T12:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=704"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:22:06","slug":"new-uk-government-postgraduate-loans-scheme-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2015\/12\/09\/new-uk-government-postgraduate-loans-scheme-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"New UK Government Postgraduate Loans Scheme announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new system of postgraduate loans for Master&#8217;s degrees in the UK\u00a0has been\u00a0introduced for the 2016-17 academic year, available to home and EU students for both full-time and part-time study.<\/p>\n<p>First announced as part of the UK\u2019s Chancellor\u2019s 2014 Autumn Statement, these government-backed student loans have now been reconfirmed as part of the 2015 Spending Review.<\/p>\n<p>The loans\u00a0will provide up to <strong>\u00a310,000 a year for taught <em>and<\/em> research Masters courses in all subject areas<\/strong>. PhD students\u00a0will be supported by separate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findaphd.com\/funding\/guides\/uk-phd-loans-scheme.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">postgraduate research loans<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Full details of the loans can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/scholarships\/postgraduate\/masters-loans.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new system of postgraduate loans for Master&#8217;s degrees in the UK\u00a0has been\u00a0introduced for the 2016-17 academic year, available to home and EU students for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2015\/12\/09\/new-uk-government-postgraduate-loans-scheme-announced\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94122,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}