Money Matters for Students
GETTINGA GRANT（补助）
Who pays?
The local education authority（LEA） for the area in which the student is living.
Who can get this money?
Anyone who gets a place on a first degree course, although a student who has already attended a course of advanced further education may not. Students must also have been resident in the UK for at least three years, which can exclude （排除） some students from overseas.
SPECIAL CASES
If a student has worked before going to college:
A student who is 26 or more before the course starts and who has worked for at least three of the previous six years will get extra money — ￡155 year of 26, increasing to a maximum of ￡615 at 29 or more.
If a student is handicapped:
I. EAs will give up to ￡500 to help meet extra expenses such as buying a tape recorder for a blind student, extra heating or special food.
Banking
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Most of the big banks offer special services to students who open accounts （in the hope that they will stay with the bank when they become rich officials）. A student won’t usually have to pay bank charges as long as the account stays in credit. Some banks allow students to overdraw by ￡110 or so, and still don’t make chargers （though they do charge interest.）
1．A student from Japan who has been staying in England for a year and intends to go to college in a few months will ________.
A．get money if he is taking a first degree course
B．be unable to get money from the LEA
C．get money from any LEA when he has finished his course
D．have to open a bank account before he gets any money
2．A student who cannot walk has to buy a wheelchair costing￡750 to go to classes. How much of the cost will he have to pay himself?
A．￡150. B．￡250. C．￡500. D．￡750.
3．You are a new student. Why may a bank welcome you as a customer?
A．They know you receive money regularly.
B．They charge students extra.
C．They hope you will be rich in the future.
D．They need student accounts in term-time.
4．How much do the banks permit the students who open accounts with them to overdraw?
A．￡155. B．￡615. C．￡500. D．￡110.