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The Aspire Cash Annual Report – The shape of student financial support in 2024

Insights and trends on the usage of financial support paid to 163,000 students via Aspire The 23/24 academic year has…

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NatWest Group announces new strategic partnership to bolster support for wider access to higher education for students and highlights potential financial savings for UK universities

Universities collectively invest around £1bn annually in students in the form of bursaries, scholarships, hardship funds and other awards, JS…

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Open Banking Award at Fintech Finance Awards 2023

JS Group, with NatWest Payit, secured the Open Banking Award at the 2023 FF Awards (organised by Fintech Finance News)…

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Shining the light on student financial support – The Aspire Cash Annual Report

Shining the light on student financial support In higher education today, hundreds of millions of pounds in financial support is…

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Aspire Cash wins Open Banking Expo award

The JS Group in partnership with Payit from NatWest, has won an award at the UK’s Open Banking Expo Awards…

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Shining a light on student financial support

The JS Group is today releasing the UK’s first ever analysis on how students are spending the cash that they…

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Achieving a High-Speed Response to the Student ‘Cost-of-Learning’ Crisis

Earlier this month HEPI in its report* on “How to Beat a  Cost-of-Learning Crisis” called for universities to take far…

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JS Group supports young sailor in historic Ocean Globe Race

This year the JS Group is supporting one of the youngest participants in the historic 27000-mile Ocean Globe Race –…

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It’s time that more universities are able to transfer hardship funds to students almost instantaneously

This is a typical example of how students face the everyday barriers and anxieties when it comes to securing fast…

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JS Group partners with Student Minds to publish expert advice on mental health to students

JS Group has published more than 20 articles about student mental health on its Student Engagement Portal. The organisation has…

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Faster emergency cash for students

Eleven UK universities have signed up to Aspire Cash, a new online platform that allows them to administer emergency funds…

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Santander has partnered with JS Group to deliver their new Santander Universities Scholars programme

Santander through their Santander Universities initiative is one of the country’s largest corporate investors in higher education having given more…

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