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Do you have to confirm your attendance every term for the funds to be paid in to your account or is it only just the once when you register for your uni?
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Klix88
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Depends on your uni.

All will want you to enrol on campus in person once a a year, at the start of each academic year. If your uni monitors students in detail, then you can find that your attendance at every lecture is recorded. This is especially true of unis which have a high proportion of International students, where they're pressured into attendance monitoring by government visa regulations. These place the obligation on the uni to ensure that their students are actually turning up to study and don't just sign up to get a visa, enrol and then disappear.

The knock-on effect is that all students are monitored, and all non-attendance is followed up. If they find that a student isn't attending lectures and doesn't respond to communication, the uni can withdraw a student and they will inform Student Finance when they've done it. The student would then have to repay any SF funding for that period, immediately.

At my current uni formal monitoring is a once a year thing, although non-attendance would be picked up when January exams were skipped.
At my uni you have to confirm your attendance twice, in September and again in February.

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