Need help with SFE funding!!?!?

Hi all. Basically I need help on my current situation in regards to funding.

A few years back I went Brighton university and stayed on campus but I dropped out after 2 days. But because I was here and I received a loan payment for maintenance, SFE count the payment as I was there for a year of funding.

I then went uni a year later and done a different course and I completed one year. The next year I stayed from sept-December before I dropped out again because I didn’t like the course. SFE have counted this as two years funding.

I am now looking to do another course (two year course, not 3) and student finance have said I have no funding left and I need to pay out of my pocket.

The problem is, I have only completed a single year of uni, (other two times dropped out at the start of first term) so why have I got no funding?

Has anyone got any advice on the situation or anyone experienced this before?

I really want to go to uni as this is something I have thought about and reflected on and I really want to do it, but sfe will not give me a loan even though I should have 1 year at least left, or even 2 as I only went Brighton uni for 2 days.

Even one day on a course counts as a year used, especially as your uni still would have been paid and you would have received some Maintenance funding which will need paying back.

So by that reckoning, you've used 3 years and should still have your gift year left. Perhaps when they told you they wouldn't fund any course, did they mean they wouldn't fund the first year? They fund backwards, so if you did a 2 year course and only had 1 year of funding remaining they would fund your 2nd/last year. That would mean you wouldn't get funding for your first year and would need to fund it yourself.

If you feel you have particularly strong reasons that were out of your control for not completing your prior courses, ie, pregnancy, mental or physical health issues etc, you can try to apply for Compelling Personal Reasons to be given an extra year's funding, but I don't think 'didn't like the course' counts for that.

You don't automatically always get 4 years funding. If op doing 2 year course now and has used 3 years previously then it's 2+1=3-3=0