Applying for funding

To apply for your Further Education Bursary, EMA, Childcare or Discretionary Hardship Funds, you must have first:

Accepted your unconditional offer of a place on the course
Received an email with your login and password

You can also read our guide for help with How to apply for funding

Once you have completed your application to the college for funding you will be able to track its progress through your online student hub account and access any letters about your award. Your student hub account will be your central point for your college life, offering you many services and tools including funding. If an award has been made, then the award letter will tell you how much you have been awarded and when the payments will be made. You will have a separate letter for each fund. EMA and Bursary payments are made fortnightly in arrears, while Childcare and Discretionary payments are made monthly in arrears. Please note EMA, travel and childcare payments are NOT paid for college holidays.

Please be aware that to receive any kind of funding you will be required to submit documentary evidence to support your application and that it can take up to 4 weeks from the date of receipt of the final piece of documentary evidence requested to process your application, therefore you should make allowances for this when you begin your course.

Apply for funding via the student hub

You can apply for the following course funding online, through your Student Hub account:

EMA (for Further Education courses (SCQF Level 1-6))
Bursary (for Further Education courses (SCQF Level 1-6))
Childcare Fund (available to both Further Education and Higher Education (SCQF Level 7 and above)).
Hardship Discretionary Fund (available to both Further Education and Higher Education (SCQF Level 7 and above)).

Applying for Funding

Go to the To Do section on the right hand side of your student hub page and click the link next to the appropriate course and apply for funding :

If you have any questions about completing your online funding application please contact the Admissions, Funding & Progression team on 01463 273482 or email funding.ic@uhi.ac.uk

It is your responsibility to regularly check the progress of your application on the Hub.

All correspondence about your entitlement will be communicated through your Hub account.

Please note, applications for funding for Higher Education courses (SCQF Level 7 and above) should be made through the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS). UHI Inverness will inform SAAS once you have enrolled and your attendance is confirmed, enabling SAAS to release funds into your bank account.

Evidence to support funding applications

You should submit evidence promptly as your application will not be assessed until all evidence has been received.

Delays in submitting evidence will result in a delay in any payments due to you.

Please note: if you do not supply all requested documentation within 6 weeks of completing your funding application it may be withdrawn.

You can submit evidence:

In person by handing in documents to Student Support Services, where it will be scanned and passed back to you.
Email an electronic copy of the requested document to funddoc.ic@uhi.ac.uk. Please remember to include your student id and which fund this is for in the title of your email, so that we can process your application.
By post through sending a copy of your requested documents to:
- Admissions, Funding & Progression Department
  UHI Inverness
  FREEPOST IV326
  Inverness
  IV1 2BR

NB Please do not send original documents in the post.

Check the status of your funding application via the student hub

You should log in to your Student Hub and check the status of your applications regularly.

Information provided will include:

Who to contact and how
Complete and follow the progress of your application
View what documents you need to submit
Download forms that may be requested for your application
View and print your award letters
How your award is calculated
View and print the Terms and Conditions or your award
Submit an Appeal and request a Re-assessment– this allows you to appeal the funding decision or inform staff of any changes to circumstances that may mean a re-assessment of circumstances.