Tuition fee entitlement

Hi,

I studied pharmacy in 21/22 and failed to pass exams at the end of the year so I had to resit 2 exams at the end of the next year (22/23). The university classed me as an external student not in attendance and I did not enrol during this resit period, I only resat exams at the end of 22/23.

I failed to pass these exams and decided to change course, upon applying for student finance I was told I wasn’t entitled to tuition fee this year due to their entitlement calculation. I have seen that when you don’t enrol and you are not in attendance for a full year only resitting exams and not attending classes at the university, student finance doesn’t class it as a year of previous study. So my tuition fee calculation has been calculated wrong.

They think I have 2 years of previous study when in fact 1 year was previous study(21/22) and the other year(22/23) I resat 'not in attendance' only sitting reassessments and did not register at all, and did not receive any statutory support from the government which to them doesn't count as a year of study for student finance purposes.

so if my calculations are correct on how many years I should receive tuition fee funding I should be entitled to 3 years as the length of my new course (3), plus (1) year, minus previous years of study (1).

How do I communicate this to student finance?

Thank you

Would this need to be done as a change of circumstance form?

Then after my university send the notification to student finance, would my application Be reassessed and the correct tuition fee entitlement be given?