Of course not.

You need to go to the disability services department within your university and ask for the support you need and then your supervisor will have to make 'reasonable adjustments' to assist you. If you're not sure how to do this, go through the postgraduate administrator in your department.

Here's some thoughts from last year: http://www.postgraduateforum.com/thread-44019/

I still think it's a bad idea and shows the direction postgraduate funding is heading i.e. goodbye to grants.

It says here you are not eligible if you aleady have a masters: https://www.gov.uk/postgraduate-loan/eligibility

Weird.

Many people get on to PhDs with a 2.1. Just throw some applications out there and see what happens.

Have you spoken to others on your course to know if they face the same issue?

Try phoning them?

Find someone else to email e.g. administration team, head of graduate school, head of school.

It won't matter if you get a PhD from a decent uni and do some good research. There's many more things that are far more important for a successful academic career.

Probably depends on your subject area. It might mean mapping to a framework if that's appropriate for your discipline or it might mean better links between chapters or to overall question. Maybe clarify with your supervisors?

I've never heard of it. Any reason why you want to do a PhD via DL?

Depends what you would want to do after a PhD. Your background will make very little difference in academia once you have a PhD.

Your question should really be, 'what am I going to after the PhD?', because that's when you would have an issue with location. Whilst it's considered negative to stay at the same institution for all degrees when you are looking for academic jobs post PhD (but won't matter that much really), it's even harder to then stay on as a post doc and eventual academic position at that same institution.

I know a couple of people who have done this, but only for teaching positions, not research ones. It's more likely if you take a technical or management role post PhD.

So, if you don't want to continue in academia after your PhD it doesn't matter if you do your PhD at your undergrad institution. If you do want to stay in academia after your PhD, then consider whether you would relocate in the future, because if the answer is no, you may need to rethink about whether a PhD is the right thing for you anyway, because eventually you would most likely have to move.

Of course also consider the dire state of the job market for people with PhDs, both in and out of academia.

Of course if you just want to do the PhD for the sake of it, then disregard all the above and just do it at your local uni.

I don't think a change of title is a big deal and I don't see how this amounts to a conflict of interest. You could tell the other authors that you are thinking of changing the title to a more appropriate one and see what they think, then just ask the editor to change it.