Thanks Perna - you're right, it's helped a lot in the past when I've been having to meet coursework deadlines. Unfortunately the student loan company sent me a letter the other day saying they can't process my application until they get information about term dates from the university - no idea why the university hasn't told them already, it's not like they're massively different from last year... The deadline for sending the enrolment forms back is the 9th of September, and it's looking very unlikely I'll have the student loan form I need to send back with the enrolment forms by then... Apparently I can still be "provisionally enrolled" until I manage to send the student loan information to the university, but I'm still annoyed!