Withdrawing from course at University - Any implications?

Is the extra year pro-rota? Like say you only got a months funding with you get another year still just minus one month?

If London Met wish to charge you fees, which they will do, then they become your responsibility and will not be paid by the SLC, as per The Student Support Regulations which state that in order to qualify for a fee loan, a student must be in attendance 3 months after the start of the academic year.

You mention grants, and I think you've muddled your maintenance loan and grant in one. Grant entitlement is pro-rata'd, based on the time you were in attendance, so you would have to pay some of that back straight away. There's also an issue where the SLC can ask for most of the loan to be repaid before you're earning over £15,000 (it's in the T&C's). London Met would also probably want the bursary back too, and most likely in full.

Thanks for your reply.

That's the thing, I started in January. I enrolled in January, so the spring semester was the first semester I was enrolled for. Hence, my assumption was that 3 months into it (Thus, April 2009) is when they're all paid off regardless?

In any case, I think it would be best to just continue to the end of the year if it's going to cause this many problems. Or just hope that London Met gets closed down, lol.

Can you reword that please?

Sorry I meant will not with!

Say you start uni and drop out after a month and then you pay back the overpaid grant and just leave the loan until you earn over 15k. When you start a different four year course, will you get funding for three years and then another year, minus the month's worth you had on the false start?

Thanks.

Sorry I meant will not with!

Say you start uni and drop out after a month and then you pay back the overpaid grant and just leave the loan until you earn over 15k. When you start a different four year course, will you get funding for three years and then another year, minus the month's worth you had on the false start?

Thanks.

I'm afraid that a partial year of funding counts as a whole year when working out your eligibility for a new course

So if you drop out after a month, that is your additional year used up

If you start a new 3 year course you will only have 3 years of full funding to complete that course

However, if you do need another year (say you have to repeat a year) you will still get a maintenance loan but you will not get a grant for that repeat year and you will not get a fee loan either (they call that 'self funding')

Then you would get funding for the duration of that, as it's duration of the new course plus one year minus previous study.

I'm trawling though to find out as much information as possible about the effects on a student of withdrawing part way through a course (or being withdrawn by the college/university) and something I have noticed is that very few students realise that they may also be hammered for a full years fees by their university (check your Learner Agreements or contracts very carefully). We've just had a situation where son was withdrawn by college (they say he withdrew) and they gave a last attendance date of 30th November and they have billed him personally for a full years fees. This is thousands of pounds and they want it from his personal income - not in line with how you would normally repay it via student finance. If anyone is thinking of withdrawing from your course part way through the year or are struggling to the extent that you may be viewed by the college as withdrawing, please go to your Student Union and get support. Not all Colleges have fair fee policies as we have discovered. Some charge by the term if you withdraw but a handful have it in their contract/Learner Agreement that you will be charged for the FULL YEARS FEES (you will be billed personally and within a month of withdrawl - repayable immediately or on far less favourable terms than under student finance ). Our son has been issued with a ccj for 7,500 by his college (he is unemployed). Nobody needs this to happen to them, so please please check your contract/Learner Agreements if you may need to withdraw or are struggling and go to your Students Union asap for advice. We fell foul as our son was never given a copy of his Learner Agreement so we only became aware of this situation once it had actually happened. You shouldn't need to be on your guard against this kind of onerous contract, but unfortunately times have changed and some colleges are businesses and their moral compass is not what it should be.