Students receiving Postgraduate tuition fee loans: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.


FOI reference: FOI/17/02255
Date received: 5 October 2017
Date responded: 18 October 2017

Information requested

'In FoI-17-01928, 4345 students were eligible to receive loans for study commencing this current academic year.

1 - Of the 4345 students eligible to receive the Postgraduate Tuition Fee Loan, how many have UK nationality?

2 - Of the 4345 students eligible to receive the Postgraduate Tuition Fee Loan, how many are nationals of another EU member state?'

Response

Of these, 4,010 were UK nationals and 775 were EU nationals. Please note, student numbers are rounded to the nearest five.

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Contact

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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

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