To be eligible to apply for support you must meet our residence conditions as set out in The Students' Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (as amended) and be undertaking a course leading to a qualification that gives professional registration in one of the Allied Health Professions. For a list of these courses, please see our course eligibility section.
To meet our residence conditions you must have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for the three years immediately before the relevant date (the first day of the first academic year of your course). For the majority of students who start their course in the autumn term, the relevant date is 1 August.
You must also be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the relevant date. If your place of ordinary residence is Scotland, you can apply to us for the full support package available. This is your tuition fees, an income-assessed Scottish Government Health Directorate bursary, a non income-assessed student loan and supplementary grants. If your place of ordinary residence is elsewhere in the UK, you can apply for all of the above, except your student loan, which you should apply to your home country for.
If you do not meet the conditions above, you may still be eligible to apply for support if you are a:
- a UK national or family member of such a national who has recently returned to the UK after living in another member state of the EU or from elsewhere in the EEA or Switzerland
- a UK national who was born in and has spent the greater part of their life in the UK
- a UK national returning from temporary employment or study outside the EEA or Switzerland
- an EEA or Swiss national living in the UK for less than 3 years
The residence eligibility conditions are complicated. If you are in any doubt about your residence eligibility status, you should contact us for advice. Find out more about our residence eligibility conditions.
If you have done a course of higher education before, this may affect the level of support you are entitled to. Please see our previous assistance section for more information.
Graduates who:
- have already received support for their first course; and
- are entering an undergraduate degree course in one of the Allied Health Professions;
will get free tuition fees, an income-assessed Scottish Government Health Directorate bursary and a student loan for the first two years from the time they enter the course. We will restrict the funding for any other years of study to the non income-assessed loan only. If your home is elsewhere in the UK, you will have to apply to your funding body in your home country for your loan and we will pay the remaining support as detailed above.
You cannot get this concession if you already hold a degree in one of the Allied Health Professions.