Source: Student Loans Company Contact: HigherEducationAndStudentFinance.Stats@gov.wales
This table presents the number of applications for Student Finance, Tuition Fee Loans and awards of a Tuition Fee Grant, to date in the current academic year, from all Welsh domiciled students and those EU students studying in Wales.
Data collection and calculation
The data are based on applications received as at the last Sunday of each calendar month (due to the way the Student Loans Company's database is updated) and extracted by the SLC. It is possible for the number of applications or awards to fall from one month to the next since some of the applications may subsequently have been cancelled or the student withdrew from their course.
More detailed information is available in SLC's annual November Statistical First Release, the first of which was published in November 2005 (provisional 2005/06 in-year data). Please note these data are taken from monthly SLC Management Reports which are not based on the same definitions used for the Statistical First Release, and therefore the figures published in November differ slightly from these tables.
Rounding applied
Figures are rounded to the nearest 5. Due to rounding the sums of some rows or columns may not add to the total figure given. Numbers less than 5 (but not zero) are represented by *.
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Cumulative number of applications for student finance and Tuition Fee Loans and number of awards of a Tuition Fee Grant
Applications for academic year 2012/13 began on the 21st March 2012, for 2013/14 began on the 1 February 2013, for 2014/15 began on the 9 March 2014, whereas applications for 2015/16 began on the 23rd February 2015. Therefore, for early months, differences seen when comparing these years may be the result of these changes in timescale.