[HDNG]SERVICES:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]W2[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Creche [ESTAT][PARA]There are various help organisations: the Student Advisory [PARA]Service employing 3 counsellors; Student Welfare Association; [PARA]the Student Health Service run by an occupational health nurse. [PARA]Another counsellor is also employed in the SA, as is a full-time [PARA]Welfare advisor. There's also a dyslexic support group.[PARA][BOLD]Women: [EBOLD]Women are outnumbered by 2 to 1.[PARA][BOLD]Disabled: [EBOLD][ITAL]Standard of access and special facilities are pretty [PARA]average, but the University promises to make special provisions [PARA]for individuals as far as possible, and things are improving.[EITAL][HDNG]FINANCE:[EHDNG][PARA][STAT][BULL] Ave debt per year: ú400 [BULL] Access fund: ú191,117 [BULL] [PARA]Successful applications (1992): 1,000[ESTAT][PARA]There is a bursary system and student welfare has a Hardship [PARA]fund (ú10,000) which it gives out to those who would otherwise be[PARA]missed (eg married women, where husbands would be expected[PARA]to support them). Loans (but not grants) from the access fund [PARA]can be made available in as little as 48 hours.[PARA][PARA]
