Sorting the money for study

Here are some helpful steps to funding your study.

• Check if you can get a Student Allowance, and how much you could receive.
• At the same time, check if you are eligible for other kinds of help - use our What you can get tool.
• Look around for a scholarship.
• Check where else you could get money from to help pay for your study or to live. Will your family help?
• Add in any income from work, during holidays and term time.
• Get a Student Loan if you need one, but only borrow as much as you need.
• Apply online to StudyLink as soon as you can. You can apply early even if you don't know for certain where or what you're going to study (but when you do, let us know).

If you're continuing study after you leave school, you're going to have a lot of choices to make. Take our online reality check to get you on your way. Will it be broadband and baked beans? Dial-up and dining out? Hear from students about their experiences and get yourself Sussed.

Sussed reality check is a tool to help you plan and understand the costs you will have while studying and the different ways you might be able to pay for it.

Planning to study - do the numbers

The cost of living calculator will help you understand what it will cost to live as a student. It's intended as a guide to help first-time students who are new to living away from home.

You can "Reality check my budget" to see what typical real world average costs are - how much you may need each week, and for a study year (40 weeks). The figures are estimates, and you will need more:

• setting up your flat - bond, freight if you're moving to a new town, insurance, connecting the phone and power
• insurance for your stuff and your car if you have one
• trips home
• car servicing and repairs, WOF and registration
• dentist and doctor appointments
• gifts
• pets

About study

The primary purpose of the project is to develop new "prescriptive" standards describing normal fetal growth, preterm growth and newborn nutritional status in eight geographically diverse populations, and to relate these standards to neonatal health risk. The worldwide use of these tools should improve infants’ healthcare and nutritional status.

The project aims to develop scientifically robust clinical tools to assess fetal growth and the nutritional status of newborn infants, as adjuncts to the recently produced WHO charts for children aged 0 to 5. These will be incorporated into national and international maternal and neonatal programs, and they will be used to monitor and evaluate maternal wellbeing, infant health and nutrition at a population level.

To achieve these objectives, primary data will be collected on a population-based sample of healthy pregnant women. The tools will describe how fetuses and newborns should grow in all countries rather than the more limited objective of past growth references which describe how they have grown at specific times and locations. They will allow for evidence-based evaluation of nutritional status at birth and measurement of the impact of preventive and treatment interventions in the community.