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Student finance forms and guides 2011/2012

As well as applying online, you can apply for student finance by completing a paper form. Students and their parents, husbands, wives and partners can download forms and guidance notes for academic year 2011/2012.

2012/13 forms and guides

2012/13 forms and guides will be available from May 2012.

Returning Your Completed Forms

You should send your completed forms to your local Student Finance NI office.

Student loans: a guide to terms and conditions 2011/2012

This guide applies to students who take out government loans during Academic Year 2011/2012 to support their study at higher-education institutions in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It explains what you are committing yourself to when you take out a loan, and it is important that you carefully read and understand this information.

2011/2012 Full-time Students

These guidebooks provide detailed information on all aspects of the financial support available during 11/12:

Applying for support

Students wishing to apply for support should complete the following forms:

New Students

Note: We recommend that new students applying for support in 2011/2012 submit their passport as proof of identity. Those students who are not passport holders can submit their Birth or Adoption Certificate, but must also complete and return the Birth/Adoption Certificate Declaration form.

This form contains two separate declarations. The Applicant's Declaration of Identity must be signed by the student to confirm their identity. The Identity Confirmation Form is to verify your identity and must be completed by a person of good standing in the community who has known you for at least two years.

Continuing students

Loan Request Forms

For students who have already applied for support and now wish to amend either the amount of Maintenance Loan or Tuition Fee Loan they requested:

Change of circumstances

Missing signature

Missing signature - complete this form if you did not sign your paper application, when you applied for student finance

Part-time students

A guide to financial support for part-time students in higher education 2011/12

Part-time students wishing to apply for support should download:

Confirmation of benefits form for part-time students

Confirmation of Income Form for part-time students

Change of circumstances form for part-time students

Parents husbands, wives and partners of students

To provide your financial information in support of a student's application (where it has not been provided on the main application form):

If your household income for the financial year 2011/2012 will be at least five per cent less than it was in financial year 2010/2011, you should complete the following form and send it to Student Finance NI with evidence.

Missing signature - complete this form if you did not sign the paper form when you supported a student's application for finance:

Disabled Students' Allowances

If you have completed or are completing your Application for Student Finance and you also want to apply for Disabled Students' Allowances, you should complete the slimline version of the DSA1 form.

If you are applying for Disabled Students' Allowances only, or if you are a part-time student, a post graduate student or if you are studying your course by distance learning you must complete the full version of the DSA1 form.

Childcare Grant

Information on all aspects of financial support, including the Childcare Grant, for student parents: