Quote From TomL85:
Thanks for your reply, it seems that student loans are not available for postgraduate courses. Can I ask why would you not recommend a career development loan.
The interest rate of the CDL was higher than a standard bank loan. I thought that was bad, and decided I'd just get a standard bank loan, but then found HSBC offering a Postgraduate Professional Loan with very good deferment terms. You can get one of these if your course is professional related e.g., medicine, dentistry, law etc.
This was some time back though so things may have changed.
This link has good info:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/loans/career-development-loans