Earlier this year concerns emerged about the processing of applications for student finance by the Student Loans Company (SLC).
On 14th October David Lammy, the Minister of State for Higher Education, and John Goodfellow, Chair of the SLC, jointly commissioned Professor Sir Deian Hopkin, supported by Bernadette Kenny of HMRC, to provide external scrutiny of the lessons learned exercise undertaken by the Company
David Lammy, the Minister of State for Higher Education, and John Goodfellow, Chair of the Student Loans Company have now been presented with a report by Professor Sir Deian Hopkin on the recent problems surrounding applications for student support.
The Recommendations have been accepted in full.
The Minister made a Written Statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday 8th December.
Read the statement
Download the report (PDF, 275 Kb) (PDF, 276KB)
SLC letter to David Lammy (PDF, 35 Kb) (PDF, 40KB)
The SLC have delayed the opening of student finance applications for academic year 2010/11 to ensure that they are fully able to take the recommendations of the report into consideration.
Applications are expected to open shortly, and this date will be publicised via www.direct.gov.uk/studentfinance
