Undergraduate tuition fee 4 yr entitlement

Due to personal issues daughter wants to withdraw from uni in her first year. If she withdraws from her uni within first 4 weeks she is not liable for any tuition fees. Does this mean she is still entitled to 3 yrs + 1 for tuition fees going forward?

Reply 1

Graeme SFE

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Original post by Loubroo

Hi there,

Apart from this year, does your daughter have any other previous study at degree-level?

It's completely up to the university to decide whether to charge any fees or not, so please speak to them directly about this,

Thanks, Graeme

Reply 2

Loubroo

Original post by Graeme SFE

Hi there,
Apart from this year, does your daughter have any other previous study at degree-level?
It's completely up to the university to decide whether to charge any fees or not, so please speak to them directly about this,
Thanks, Graeme

Thanks Graeme. She doesn’t. This is her first year of her undergraduate degree and uni policy is if she withdraws within 1st 4 weeks there are no fees, otherwise it’s 25% if she leaves first term then 50% and then 100%. As she won’t have used her first year tuition fee loan at all I’m wondering whether she will still be entitled to 4 yrs tuition fee loan or just 3yrs

Reply 3

Drew SLC

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Hi there,

Has the student been paid their Maintenance Loan?

Thanks, Drew

Reply 4

Loubroo

Original post by Drew SLC

Hi there,
Has the student been paid their Maintenance Loan?
Thanks, Drew

Yes and I realise anything over the entitlement for the couple of weeks she’s been at uni needs to be paid straight back - it’s ok she hasn’t used any of it yet

Reply 5

Drew SLC

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Hi there,

We will need the university to send us a Change of Circumstances withdrawal for non attendance and the student will need to pay back the full Maintenance Loan. If they do this it will not effect their future funding.

Thanks, Drew

Reply 6

Loubroo

thanks so much, so she would still be eligible for 4 yrs tuition fees if she returned in a yr or 2 for a different undergraduate degree course.

Reply 7

Angela SFE

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Original post by Loubroo

thanks so much, so she would still be eligible for 4 yrs tuition fees if she returned in a yr or 2 for a different undergraduate degree course.

Hi there, Yes, that is correct. Thanks, Angela

Reply 8

Loubroo

Original post by Angela SFE

Hi there, Yes, that is correct. Thanks, Angela

Thanks so much again for your help

Reply 9

Angela SFE

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Original post by Loubroo

Thanks so much again for your help

🙂 no worries

Reply 10

Loubroo

Original post by Angela SFE

🙂 no worries

Can I just check two more things. My daughter has submitted the formal uni withdrawal on their portal. She contacted student finance by phone to advise. My understanding is the uni then notify student loans. She has received a message when contacting the loans about any overpayment needing to be paid back pretty much straight away -She is getting herself really upset thinking this is both any tuition fees which have gone out and her maintenance loan. I’ve explained from what I’ve read, if she owes any tuition fee loan (and hopefully not as the uni policy is no fees if withdrawal is within 1st 4 weeks) then that is only repaid when she is earning over a certain amount. It’s only the maintenance loan that is classed as the overpayment and paid back now.

The second is that it looks as though the tuition loan has been sent to the uni two days ago. As the uni policy re withdrawal in first four weeks is no fees, once all the admin is sorted out at both ends, will this just be returned to student finance and therefore leave my daughter still eligible for 3yrs plus 1yr when she picks her studies back up.

Reply 11

Leah SLC

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Hi there. You can only be overpaid in Maintenance Loan, not Tuition Fee. If the Uni decided to charge fees, this would enter the standard repayment process.

We can only make a payment of the fee if the uni send her attendance to us. If they send a non- attendance withdrawal, then they would return the fees to us if they have been paid out already. Thanks, Leah.