SHG Application Changes

There have been minor changes to last year's application form: students may now apply for hardship at the same time as they apply for the TSG (although not many students have taken advantage of this, mainly because they do not know their exact vacation earnings), and there is now provision for detailing vacation expenditure. One change that was pushed for by the University bursaries people was moving the cut-off date for student ages from February 1 to sometime in June. The Education Department rejected this suggestion emphatically. The cut-off date is so rigid that a student who turned twenty on February 2 this year will be considered 19 years old for the entire academic year. This of course means that students coming to university straight from school could very well have graduated before they are considered by the Department to be no longer dependent on their parents.