Money claim papers received

Hi there
Any help would be great.

Partner has received court claim for unpaid tuition for a course he had to leave partway through. When I say part way I mean he did not return following summer term break as he simply could not meet the payments. Over 1500 was paid out of a 2k tuition. He wrote to them notifying and we didn't think anymore of it until papers were dropped through our letterslot yesterday.

Now I cannot find any t & c from his enrolment although I will say it was very vague when he enrolled as it was the first term that the level 2 fee waiver was scrapped. We actually bounded the college from May 2013 when he first registered up until the week his course began in sept to find out if he was going to have to pay any fees at all and were left with 3 days to decide if he wanted to continue and AFTER the course had started when we were told he was going to be liable for fees. He agreed a monthly payment plan with them but then I was made redundant the following spring so he could no longer continue at that time.

Now,I don't have an issue with paying this IF he is allowed to re-enroll and finish the course, they run it every year starting September. In all honesty I'd like to defend this claim but wouldn't know where to start?? This is the first time we have come up against this while he is in his DMP WHICH STARTED after the course. We are in a much more financially secure position now and I could pay the claim off if needed but I don't feel it's right for them to go down this road namely based on the fact we never (that I can't recall) had t & c for the tuition loan and that it was such a mess with the fee waiver information back when he originally enrolled. If I am going to pay this off for him I'd like him to St least finish the course.