Undergraduate Support. As part of our strategy for widening participation, we have made a clear commitment to ensuring that, as fees increase, students with genuine financial need are in receipt of good advice and appropriate financial assistance. Our aim is to ensure that no student has legitimate reason to be deterred from applying to Bristol because of their inability to meet the costs of living and studying here. To underpin this aim, the University’s core Financial Support Package for full-time undergraduate students entering the University in 2013 will deliver: • A reduced tuition fee of £3,500 p.a. for all students whose residual household income is £15k or below. These students will pay no more for their education than they would under the previous financial arrangements. • A reduced tuition fee of £4,500 p.a. for all students whose residual household income is £20k or below. • A reduced tuition fee of £6,000 p.a. for all students whose residual household income is £25k or below. In addition, we will offer an enhanced financial support package to full-time undergraduates who have participated in our Access to Bristol scheme. This will deliver: • A full tuition fee waiver and an annual maintenance bursary valued at £3750 for those Access to Bristol ‘graduates’ who have a residual household income of £25k or below. These students should be able to complete their studies at Bristol without incurring any debt in respect of either tuition or maintenance costs. Students eligible for our financial support package will be given the option to convert £2,000 p.a. of their fee waiver entitlement into a cash bursary. All the above amounts are valid for 2013/14 and will increase annually in line with inflation (assuming that tuition fees also rise to reflect inflation). Eligibility will be determined in accordance with the SLC assessment of household income for state support purposes. Embedded within this package are awards to be made through the National Scholarship Programme. For full-time students, these awards are offered as fee waivers, as an integral part of the student finance package described above. Students have the same option to convert part of their fee waiver to a cash bursary but the proportion of this bursary funded through the NSP will not exceed £1,000. Awards made through the National Scholarship Programme will be made where a student’s residual household income is £12,000 or below. The matched funding element of NSP awards is paid in a student’s second year. There...
