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Figure 1 Students receiving support and/or assessed for loans by SAAS , 2002-03 to 2007-08
Source: SAAS management information.
Data for this figure is taken from Table 1.
1. Figure 1 and Table 1 show that the total number of students supported since 2002-2003 has increased by 1.2% to 122,505 in 2007-2008. The number of students receiving awards has increased by 3.1% since 2002-2003 to 58,230 in 2007-2008. However numbers receiving award payments have been decreasing since 2005-2006 with 0.9% fewer students receiving awards in 2007-2008. The number of students receiving fee support remained reasonably constant, at around 111,000, up until academic year 2006-2007, which saw an increase of around 2.0% in the numbers receiving fees. 2007-2008 saw another increase, by 1.3% to 114,100. These increases can be attributed to the introduction of fee loan support for study outside Scotland in the rest of the UK for new entrants in academic year 2006-2007 and increasing EU student numbers. The number of students assessed for maintenance loans has decreased in each academic year from a high of 91,755 in 2002-03 to 78,175 in 2007-08; this corresponds to a decrease of 14.8%. Further details on these elements of support can be found in Table 5 (fees), Tables 6 and 7 (loans) and Table 8 (awards).
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