Guidance
Dance and Drama Awards guide
Funding rules for the Dance and Drama Awards scheme which is income assessed support for tuition fees and living costs.
Applies to England
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The guide sets out the funding rules for the Dance and Drama Awards (DaDA) scheme for the relevant academic year and forms part of institutions鈥� Department for Education (DfE) funding agreements. Institutions must comply with the rules and must be able to show they comply at any audit.
DfE聽provides the funding for the聽DaDA聽scheme. Only institutions that are聽DfE聽approved to administer the scheme can offer聽DaDA聽funding to students.
Updates to this page
Published 23 April 2025
Last updated 17 June 2025
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We have included the Disabled Students Allowance section in the DaDA guide for academic year 2025 to 2026.
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First published.