{"id":4655,"date":"2023-10-06T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T10:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsgroup.co.uk\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2023-10-09T14:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T13:25:34","slug":"shining-a-light-on-student-financial-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsgroup.co.uk\/jsgmar26\/news-and-views\/news\/shining-a-light-on-student-financial-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining a light on student financial support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The JS Group is today releasing the UK\u2019s first ever analysis on how students are spending the cash that they receive from bursaries, scholarships, hardship funds and other such specialist investments through their universities.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of millions of pounds are devoted each year to supporting students who are in need of supplementary funds to enable them to cope, progress and thrive through their higher education experience.<\/p>\n

The JS Group is now able to track the specific spending patterns associated with the use of cash being drawn down by students from these funds.<\/p>\n

The Shining the light on student financial support<\/em> report has identified these trends through the Group\u2019s dedicated partnerships with UK universities and via its own unique management and delivery of such funding through its Aspire Cash service for these universities.<\/p>\n

The analysis covers the latest full academic year (2022 to 2023) and draws on data from 53,049 students (across different universities) in receipt of a total of \u00a319.1-million of cash.<\/p>\n

The JS Group will now be able to provide valuable insight to the UK higher education sector as it uses this first report as an initial benchmark for tracking comparative investment and spending habits on a rolling annual basis. As new partner universities benefit from the JS Group over time then this nationally significant data will be further expanded and enriched.<\/p>\n

This first ever report has identified:<\/strong><\/p>\n