I got a £10,000 loan for my nursing degree. Now they say it's an error and I have to pay it back

I got a £10,000 loan for my nursing degree. Now they say it's an error and I have to pay it back8 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleBranwen JeffreysEducation EditorDavid RobinsonDavid Robinson received an email from his university saying he would be expected to pay back his student loans and grantsUntil recently, David Robinson was happy in the knowledge that the nursing degree he finished last year had been a worthwhile investment to move him along in his career with the NHS.He had used an NHS bursary and drew on his own savings to fund his time at university, as well as successfully applying for a tuition fee loan. He was also approved for a £10,538 maintenance loan to help pay for his living costs.But on Wednesday, he received an email from his university which left him shaken. It said his one-year postgraduate diploma in adult nursing had actually been ineligible for maintenance loans and grants, and that all the money he received would need to be repaid at "a revised and accelerated" rate.This week, BBC News reported that 22,000 students on weekend courses had received letters from the Student Loans Company (SLC) or their universities informing them that their courses had actually been ineligible for the loans and grants they had successfully applied for.Although Robinson's course was not just weekend-taught, he has also been caught out. The course was full-time, including several months of clinical placements.But the BBC understands his course has fallen on the wrong side of regulations which spell out that one-year postgraduate courses are not routinely funded.In a joint statement, some of the affected universities said they were "extremely concerned" by the move and were considering a legal challenge. Supporting impacted students would be their primary focus while the situation was reviewed, they said.In a statement sent to the BBC earlier this week, the SLC said a small number of institutions had "incorrectly c...