National policy · Finance, funding and sustainability · United Kingdom
Department for Education seeks views on timing of LLE loan payments
The Department for Education has launched a call for evidence on when and how tuition fee and maintenance loans should be paid out under the Lifelong Learning Entitlement.
Why it matters: Undergraduate students and the providers of undergraduate courses and modules face whatever loan payment timetable the department settles on under the Lifelong Learning Entitlement.
The Department for Education has launched a call for evidence asking when, and by what method, tuition fee and maintenance loans should be paid out under the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE), a student finance system.
The department said the exercise bears on funding support for every undergraduate course and module.
It said it wants solid evidence on what altering the timing and method of loan payments would mean in practice.
According to the department, the responses will feed into drawing up timely and effective payment timetables for higher education students.
Editor’s view
Richard Davies, Policy and Finance Editor
Undergraduate students and providers of undergraduate courses and modules are the parties concerned; if the department alters current LLE payment timings, the schedule on which students receive tuition fee and maintenance loans would change with it.
