Student Finance for speech and language therapy students (FOI)

Request 

Please can you confirm if Student Finance has provided funding for postgraduate speech and language therapy Master's? E.g., MSc Speech and Language Therapy (pre-registration) or MSc Speech and Language Sciences etc?

Response 

Student Finance has provided funding for eligible individuals to study various postgraduate MSc Speech and Language in accordance with Article 9 of the Education (Grants and Allowances) (Jersey) Order 2018.

Article 9 of the Education (Grants and Allowances) (Jersey) Order 2018.pdf (jerseylaw.je)

Article 9 states:

9 Professional examinations

(1) A student is eligible for consideration for a grant in respect of a full-time course of 

postgraduate education in preparation for a professional examination at a higher 

level.

(2A) A student who has previously received a grant under Article 11 is eligible for 

consideration for a grant under this Article.12

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), “professional examination at a higher level” has 

the same meaning as in paragraph 1(g) of Schedule 2 to the Law (course of higher 

education). 

Article7(2) states:

7 General rules for eligibility

(2) A student who has undertaken the whole or part of a course for which a grant is 

available is not eligible to be considered for a grant of the same description in 

respect of another course at or beneath the level of the original course whether or 

not the student received a grant for the original course or part of it.