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With regards to council tax collection, an individual is generally classed as a full time student and therefore exempt from paying council tax if they are undertaking a course of study for at least 24 weeks of each academic year and requiring at least  21 hours of study, tuition or work experience in each of these weeks.

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0226-01.htm

Notes:

1. Student numbers have been rounded up or down to the nearest five.

2. Numbers may not sum to totals as a result of this rounding.

3. Direct comparisons between the figures 2007-08 and those for previous academic years cannot be made due to an improvement to the method of collating college data. This removed 175 duplicate cases from the total number of students supported in the £10 and £20 categories in 2007-08.

Source: Student Loans Company (SLC).

Notes:

Monetary amounts have been rounded to the nearest 10,000 and are quoted in millions.

Scotland domiciled and resident is taken as those who took out loans which are owed back to Scotland.

Interest accrued (a) while studying and (b) following graduation is interpreted as (a) before the Statutory Repayment Due Date (SRDD) and (b) after the SRDD.

The SLC does not apply interest to the accounts of income contingent loan borrowers who have entered repayment until they have received notice of the amounts of repayments collected from Her Majesty''s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). For most cases this occurs within one year of the tax year that the repayments relate to, interest is then applied retrospectively to the accounts.

The Scottish Government have however obtained the following from Skills Development Scotland on the programme costs and the number of individuals involved in the Get Ready for Work (GRfW) programme over the last three years.

Young people on full time provision receive £55 per week and those on part time provision receive £45 per week, depending on hours of participation.

Table 1 Get Ready for Work, Starts, Allowances and Spend by Financial Year

HESA''s participation of under-represented groups performance indicators can be found at:

http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php/content/view/1174/141/.

There is no clearly defined measure of students from non-traditional backgrounds, though these are usually assumed to mean students from low socio-economic groups.

Notes:

1. Student numbers have been rounded up or down to the nearest five.

2. Numbers may not sum to totals due to rounding.

3. Direct comparisons between the figures 2007-08 and those for previous academic years cannot be made due to an improvement to the method of collating college data. This removed 75 duplicate cases from the total number of bonus recipients in the £10 and £20 categories in 2007-08.