📋 Tender Overview
Following a busy Clearing period and we continue to process those applications our attention is now turning to payment as we enter September.Its hard to believe summer is over and the return to university or college is just days away. Over the next few weeks we anticipate paying over 2.4billion in Maintenance Loan funding to students and a further 2.8billion in Tuition Fees to higher education providers on their behalf. Its a key milestone for the Operations Team here at SLC as we fulfil our role as enablers of opportunity and students start the new academic year with their funding in place.With more than one million student applications processed and ready to pay at this point we are in a really strong position for the start of the 2223 academic year. Students can find out their application status by checking their online account. All thats then left to do is register for their course at their university or college.This year we have been focussed on improving the application experience for students and our commitment to improving the customer experience continues as we move into payment. Just as students can track the progress of their student finance application via their online account they can also view their payment schedule online as well. And if students need more support there is lots of helpful information on how to do this in our online guide to getting your first payment.We also have some excellent short films on our SFE You Tube channels including the one below which is dedicated to payment. And students logging into their online accounts will notice that they now have access to a new common questions area which provides instant answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about payment.
