MEDR Fee Waiver

About the Bursary

Students living in Wales who are in higher education and who study part-time may have their fees waived if they meet certain conditions, dependent on when they started their course.

Criteria/Eligibility

A student enrolled on an eligible course must:

(i) be classed as eligible for funding according to the definition provided in MEDR's Higher Education Students Early Statistics (HESES) survey

(ii) be Welsh domiciled (provision of a Welsh address by the student would usually be considered sufficient evidence of Welsh domicile).

and meet one or more of the following conditions:

a) the student or the student's family is in receipt of:

Universal Credit or its predecessors
Jobseeker's Allowance
Employment and Support Allowance

b) the student is in receipt of:

Carers allowance or carer's credit
Disability premium or other disability-related financial support
Bereavement benefits

c) be from a group which is considered to be under-represented in higher education, such as:

students of all ages from areas in the bottom two quintiles of the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019
students of all ages from UK low participation in HE areas as measured by the proportion of working age adults with HE qualifications from the 2011 census (bottom two quintiles)
care leavers or care experienced students • students with disabilities • students from ethnic minority backgrounds
LGBTQ+ students
refugees and asylum seekers
students with caring responsibilities
those studying through the medium of Welsh.