Another Drop out thread.... after 1st year though.

Pardon my ignorance but does one really need a university degree to facilitate something as vocational as working in the film industry. With the failing education system, current economic climate and lack of career prospects for some I wouldn't blame you for wanting to go to university but I don't really see why you'd even consider putting yourself over 10k in debt when there are perfectly capable people beginning work in film and broadcasting straight out of sixth form.

With people going to university without necessity, no wonder universities are set to bursting, underfunded and hence the current government is having to take drastic measures to rectify the problem at the expense of medics, physicists, mathematics, and academic students who actually need to go to uni.

That's exactly why i'm leaving.

And hmmm varied answers, i'm pretty sure I don't get any grant or loan after June so I don't see why I would pay 25% of between June and september. I just get them at the start of each term, and I will be completing each term.

It doesn't matter how you try to justify getting money under false pretences. You will find unis don't do terms they do semesters. Look up the definition and you'll see why you get 2 payments! What a dumbo! The bottom line is the grant is allocated for a 12 month period. You leave before the 12 months are up you will be required to repay it and will not be reconsidered for any other funding until it is repaid.

It doesn't matter how you try to justify getting money under false pretences. You will find unis don't do terms they do semesters. Look up the definition and you'll see why you get 2 payments! What a dumbo! The bottom line is the grant is allocated for a 12 month period. You leave before the 12 months are up you will be required to repay it and will not be reconsidered for any other funding until it is repaid.

Dumbo?
Lol.
Firstly I'm staying because I might actually like the course.
Also, I get 3 payments, One in September, One in Janurary, and 1 in May.

I happen to do three terms / semesters whatever you want to call them.

You're not helping at all, anyone else who actually has knowledge wanna help?

you get three grant payments, please don't give advice on a topic you don't understand, it could lead to the OP making the wrong decision.

OP, you don't generally have to repay the grant you received for the time you were at uni. for example, if you dropped out JUST BEFORE the second instalment was due (early january) you wouldn't have to repay anything from the first instalment, but if you dropped out about a month before the second instalment (i.e. december) you'd have to pay back a months worth of the grant, because you didn't get the chance to 'use' it.

if you have a more specific question PM me and i'll do my best to explain

Actually, it's calculated from the 1st September to the date of last attendance. You take the total grant awarded, multiply it by the number of days in attendance and divide by 365 (or 366 if there's a leap year). This gives the entitlement, and it will not always work out exactly how you've said. Please don't give advice on something you don't understand fully.

hello unnecessary bitchy repetition!

if what you said above is true, i've been given the wrong information from the student loans company (which of course is possible, they're only human after all, but i assumed it would have been reliable). when i dropped out, they calculated it from the 22nd september which was the official starting date of my course. my date of last attendance being in december, they worked out the number of weeks until the next instalment (10th jan in my case) and deducted the weeks i attended from the total, asking for the remained back :/ is that not the normal procedure? i apologise if i've given the wrong information, i assumed the procedure would be standard.

Actually, it's calculated from the 1st September to the date of last attendance. You take the total grant awarded, multiply it by the number of days in attendance and divide by 365 (or 366 if there's a leap year). This gives the entitlement, and it will not always work out exactly how you've said.

i've just worked out my entitlement using the above method and it's given me a number very close to the amount i had to pay back rather than the amount i was entitled to keep, was that what you meant?