Student Finance

🔔 NEWS ALERT 🔔

Changes to Student Finance from September 2026 🎓

Important updates have been announced to Student Finance, which will apply to both new and continuing students from September 2026.

Here’s what’s changing:

📚 Maximum tuition fee grant will increase to £9,790
💷 Maximum maintenance grant will increase to £9,449
🏥 Maximum clinical component grant will increase to £1,261

🌍 Placements & Study Abroad

If you choose an optional work placement or study abroad lasting 21 weeks or more across your whole course, you will now receive your full means-tested tuition and maintenance grant for every year of your course.

➡️ Previously, grants were reduced by 25% in these cases — this reduction will now be removed.

These changes are designed to help keep higher education affordable and to ensure more students can take advantage of valuable opportunities such as placements and studying abroad, which can support future employment prospects.

ℹ️ The Student Finance website will be updated shortly with full details

Government of Jersey

Student Finance are at the HE Fair at the Radisson looking forward to meeting students and parents and answering your questions! Please pop by and say hello

✨Post Graduate Funding✨

We are currently sending out HE2 links for continuing students. We have not sent everyone’s in one go so please do not worry if you haven’t received yours yet.

Please do not call if you haven’t received one, please be patient it will be with you soon.

If you have not received a HE2 link by weds 28th Jan please contact us.

Tel: 01534 449450
Email: [email protected]

UPDATE TO INDEPENDENT STUDENT CRITERIA

Students classed as financially independent have their grant assessed on their own income instead of their parents’ income.

What has changed?

The definition of an independent student now includes students who have:

• Worked full time in Jersey for at least 3 years before starting their course.
• Work completed must have been undertaken as an adult aged 18 or over.
• Full time usually means 35 hours per week. If you work fewer hours for a valid reason, contact student finance as you may still be eligible.
• This change applies from September 2025. Students who meet the updated criteria may have their application reassessed for the current academic year.
• Students who have lived in separate accommodation from their parents for 3 years before their course start will continue to be treated as independent.

Questions?

Updated guidance will be published on our website next week under ‘Who can receive student finance’

Student finance will shortly be contacting students who are aged 21 to 25 who may be eligible under the new definition.

If you do not hear from us and believe you meet the criteria, please contact us directly using the details below.

Phone number
01534 449450

Email address
[email protected]

Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm

REMINDER

If you are starting university between 01 Sept 2025 - 31 Aug 2026 you MUST complete your HE1 application by 31 Dec 2025 as they fall into the 2025/26 academic year.

Please take special note if your child is studying abroad for 2026/27 but start before 1st Sept 2026 they will fall into this academic year for applying.

Please contact us directly with any queries: email: [email protected]
Tel: 01534 449450

Unsure how UCAS Clearing works? Watch the below to find out what you need to do & how to apply:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvmnbD1hgmU&t=10s

Don’t forget Clearing is open until the 20th October 2025.

Good luck to everyone tomorrow that will be getting their A Level results.

Student Finance will be at Highlands tomorrow to help with finalising applications 9am -2pm.

If you aren’t attending highlands then don’t forget send in confirmation of your place/enrolment and complete your HE7 forms so we can complete your applications ready to make payments for 10thSept.

Contact us if you have any questions, please be patient as we are expecting high volumes of emails and calls the next few days.

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01534 449450

MAINTENANCE PAYMENT SCHEDULE 2025/26:

Autumn: Wednesday 10th September 2025
Spring: Monday 5th January 2026
Summer: Friday 10th April 2026

If you have any queries please contact Student Finance on:
E: [email protected]
T: 01534 449450

Calling all Jersey students studying in Wales

We have received confirmation that Channel Island students will continue to qualify for Home Fee status. That means you can move into university accommodation as planned and you do not need to be in the UK by 1st September.

Tuition fee limits for students residing within the Common Travel Area (SFWIN 06/2025) | GOV.WALES Clarifies the tuition fee policy for students who normally live in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland.

DISTANCE LEARNING UPDATE:

Changes have been made to higher education grants for distance learning students

The Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning, Deputy Rob Ward, has signed an Amendment order allowing students studying through distance learning to be eligible for maintenance grants and a higher tuition grant from September 2025, equal to what campus-based students receive.

This follows the Ministerial order signed in February 2025 to remove long term care and hypothec benefits from students’ income assessment. Both changes have now taken effect following the signing of the Amendment order.

The key changes are:

1. Distance learning students can get up to £9,138 to help with living costs
2. The maximum tuition grant will increase from £7,400 to £9,535
3. Grants remain means-tested and depend on household income – the same income thresholds apply to both distance and campus students
4. For distance learners, grants will be adjusted based on how many credits they study (study intensity)
5. Grants for distance learning are only available for degree courses that are regulated in the British Islands

Deputy Ward said: ‘These changes will ensure young people studying for their degrees off-campus are entitled to the same maintenance and tuition grants as their campus-based peers. This will level the playing field and further open higher education as a viable path for more young people in Jersey to pursue. This further contributes towards our strategic priority to increase the provision of lifelong learning and skills development.’

The website will be updated shortly to reflect the changes.

If you have any questions please contact Student Finance directly on: 01534 449450 or email: [email protected]

An update on how the new Student Credit Policy will work:

A person has graduated from a 4-year degree before the 1st of April 2025. - They can claim up to 36 months of student credits for this degree.

A person has graduated from a 4-year degree before the 1st of April 2025. They decide to enrol on a postgraduate degree after the 1st of April of 2025. - They can claim up to 36 months of student credits for the degree that they completed before the 1st of March 2025 and up to an additional 24 months for their postgraduate degree. A new Student Credit form will need to be completed for this

A person is studying during the 1st of April of 2025. Original SC application was input at 36 months form shows an end date that exceeds 36 months. - They can claim up to 60 months of student credits (minus any months that they have already claimed before the policy change for any previous periods of full-time education). As long as their end date on original form shows their end date is longer than 36 months no new Student Credit form needs to be completed this will be actioned automatically by the contributions team

A person starts a new degree after the 1st of April 2025 - They can claim up to 60 months of student credits (minus any months that they have already claimed before the policy change for any previous periods of full-time education).