Trainee nurse denied education funding despite living in Scotland since 2007
A TRAINEE nurse working 12 and a half hour shifts is being forced to fork out for travel and living costs because she has been ruled ineligible for student funding. Glory Omoaka has also been denied the £500 bonus for health care workers which has been handed out by the Scottish Government for working through the pandemic. Omoaka, who lives in Glasgow with her 15-year-old daughter, managed to get her nursing degree fees paid after a battle but is still being refused the SAAS funding given to others as she has been assessed as a foreign student despite living here since 2007. It means...
Source: thenational.scot