The latest statistics on applications for student finance, tuition fee loans and tuition fee grants awarded produced by the Student Loans Company (SLC) were released on 13 November 2008 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

The key points from the latest release are:

• In the 2008/09 academic year to date, a total of 52,070 applications had been received for student support in Wales.
• 39,290 applications had been received for tuition fee loans; 31,080 students had been awarded a tuition fee grant.

The full release is available to download from the Statistics for Wales website.