If your intention is to work and practice as a midwife in the UK long-term, TBH I'd move here as a citizen, work for three years and save some money for your student years, then study. It sets you back but not so much that courses won't take you, and it's worth getting the financial aid that will then be available to you. (You'll also pay Home/EU fees, which will admittedly still be quite high but not as high as International ones.)
Well, starting in 2012 uni tuition fees for home students can be as high as 9,000 and Cameron already said it wouldn't change much for international students so I'm guessing the fees will be about the same?
Even with increase in fees for home students the tuition for international students is noticeably more expensive - just not expected to change as much percentage-wise.
Well, the current system is that fees are subsidised for UK students, whereas international students pay the full cost.
That subsidy is being taken away by the new government, so we might end up in a scenario where everyone has to pay full price, regardless of where they come from.
It would, yeah. It's actually an interesting question - a lot of sectors (such as teacher training, for example) give certain people a bursary to cover the tuition fees (so you never see the money, your uni's paid with it) and I wonder: if the tuition fees are raised, will the bursary that exists for the sole purpose of covering those tuition fees be raised to cover them fully?
I really have no idea. I would tend to prepare for the worst and say it'll cover as much as it did before regardless of the actual tuition fees but that's just me.
The current International fees for midwifery can be more than 3x the Home/EU fees at present, depending on where you go (average is 2.5x). (On some (non-midwifery) courses International fees are up to 9x the Home/EU fees.) It is very likely that H/EU fees will remain cheaper even with the hike in fees, plus H/EU students can apply to Student Finance for loans - and the NHS bursary, in the OP's case - but International students cannot. It is still going to be worth being regarded as a Home/EU student if you possibly can. (EU has a slight advantage, for loophole reasons, but that isn't an option for the OP.)
Trust me, I do this sort of thing for a living. ;-)
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That subsidy is being taken away by the new government, so we might end up in a scenario where everyone has to pay full price, regardless of where they come from.
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I really have no idea. I would tend to prepare for the worst and say it'll cover as much as it did before regardless of the actual tuition fees but that's just me.
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Trust me, I do this sort of thing for a living. ;-)
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