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+title: Updating financial support information
+description: Improving how we display financial support, including making it easier for non-UK citizens to see their options.
+date: 2025-01-06
+tags:
+  - courses
+  - fees
+  - financial support
+---
+
+## The issue
+
+The information on financial support from the government was presented as paragraphs of text.
+
+This can make it difficult for candidates to easily understand key information and compare it with other courses.
+
+Additionally, information specific to non-UK citizens was difficult to find at the bottom of the box.
+
+### Fee-based courses
+
+![screenshot of the previous design of the financial support callout box](find-financial-callout-fee-before-jan-2025.png)
+
+### Salaried courses
+
+![screenshot of the previous design of the financial support callout box](find-financial-callout-salaried-before-jan-2025.png)
+
+## What we changed
+
+### Removed the caption
+
+We removed the caption 'Advice from Get Into Teaching', as it didn't feel necessary to highlight the separation of digital products in the service.
+
+### Separated information
+
+We separated the information for UK and non-UK citizens, and collapsing the information so that the sections are closed by default.
+
+We used a new pattern for how we display information for non-UK citizens, so that it is easy for these users to recognise where information is located that is relevant to them.
+
+#### Fee-based courses
+
+![screenshot of the previous design of the financial support callout box](find-financial-callout-fee-after-closed-jan-2025.png)
+
+#### Salaried courses
+
+![screenshot of the previous design of the financial support callout box](find-financial-callout-salaried-after-closed-jan-2025.png)
+
+### Reduced and reformatted the content
+
+We reduced the content and added headings to make it clearer what financial support was available for each course.
+
+#### Fee-based courses
+
+![screenshot of the previous design of the financial support callout box](find-financial-callout-fee-after-open-jan-2025.png)
+
+#### Salared courses
+
+![screenshot of the previous design of the financial support callout box](find-financial-callout-salaried-after-open-jan-2025.png)
+
+## Usability testing
+
+This was tested with 18 participants over 2 rounds of testing in July and November 2024.
+
+The findings validated that these changes would be useful to candidates, including non-UK citizens.