2015-16 student support rates now available – no change (and still no announcement)

This post noted that on 1 April there was still no information on the 2015-26 student support rates in Scotland.

Thank-you to someone who happened to be checking the SAAS website today and let me know that since mid-week the funding guide linked on the SAAS site has been updated for 2015-2016 – the alternating banner headline on the site now alerts visitors to the new guide being available: it is here.  The relevant page on the SAAS site with the link is here.

The main pages are yet to be fully updated and still refer to 2014-15

and there does not appear to be any announcement as yet on the government news pages.

Maybe something is planned for after the holiday weekend (today is Good Friday, so this may be a few days away).

The grant and loan rates remain at the same levels since 2014-15, in line with the prediction in this piece about the Scottish budget, from August 2013, that “freezing student grant levels … seems likely to be a strong contender for managing the pressure [on the budget]”. Grant rates are now unchanged since 2013-14.