my brother is trying to resit the year.

melancholly

just one more thing - unis always have procedures for extenuating circumstances. if anything like this happens to any student reading this, go see a tutor and fill out the form before exams. it is much easier to get a positive response from uni staff if you go through the set channels and make them aware of any problems before the exams. keep the copy of your course handbook somewhere safe so that if you need to, you can find details of all the procedures.

(i know this doesn't help the OP - but i think it's worth stressing for anyone else who has any similar problems, and for your brother to remember for next year)

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melancholly wrote: »

just one more thing - unis always have procedures for extenuating circumstances. if anything like this happens to any student reading this, go see a tutor and fill out the form before exams. it is much easier to get a positive response from uni staff if you go through the set channels and make them aware of any problems before the exams. keep the copy of your course handbook somewhere safe so that if you need to, you can find details of all the procedures.

(i know this doesn't help the OP - but i think it's worth stressing for anyone else who has any similar problems, and for your brother to remember for next year)

Yes I also agree with this! See your tutors, get help and fill in the mitigating circumstances form, you will be much better off for doing this

bestpud

drinkupretty wrote: »

Yes I told him to do this the other day he was going to get in contact with them asap the last time I spoke to him, I will phone him monday to see where he is at.
To the others I started this thread for advice (which I now have thanks to some of you helpful types much appretiated) not for you to be jury or be judgemental. He screwed up this year he knows this he is only 19, he can't be expected to know everything about independant living and university policies. I sure as hell didn't in my first year though thankfully at my university my academic tutors and various help points have always been more than willing to point me in the right direction.

Perhaps his tutors will be more convinced he will do better this year if he just admits this, as opposed to giving them a tale of woe they will have heard from countless students before him?

This seem especially true when there are holes in his story!

Tell him to be upfront - admit he screwed up and then tell them why it will be different this year.

As for not knowing the uni policies, or even where to find them - words fail me! :eek: I can see why tutors get frustrated and rant about needing to spoon feed todays students!!

my_two_cents

bestpud wrote: »

Perhaps his tutors will be more convinced he will do better this year if he just admits this, as opposed to giving them a tale of woe they will have heard from countless students before him?

This seem especially true when there are holes in his story . . .

Gosh, if you cannot help . . .

Did you miss the part where he said the LEA/SLC messed him up and are now going to pay the loan he should have gotten paid last year :rolleyes:

Did you also miss the part where he said his brother cpould prove he was depressed i.e. clinically depressed and not just suffering from seperation anxiety?

Did you also miss the submission by xcat_girl x, whereby she had to put in 40 hours of work per week just to make ends meet?

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my_two_cents wrote: »

Gosh, if you cannot help . . .

Did you miss the part where he said the LEA/SLC messed him up and are now going to pay the loan he should have gotten paid last year :rolleyes:

Did you also miss the part where he said his brother cpould prove he was depressed i.e. clinically depressed and not just suffering from seperation anxiety?

Thats what I thought but so many people have seemed so judgemental and quick to decide he deserves it, I have just given up. These people are clearly narrow minded and are just being abnoxious for the sake of it :mad:

my_two_cents

Voyager2002 wrote: »

. . . I am afraid that someone who could not organise his life, money and study well enough to pass his exams is in no position to criticise others for not doing their jobs. . .

For want of sounding like a broken record, the LEA/SLC messed his finances up and have now agreed to pay him what they should have paid last year and he had some element of clinical depression.

my_two_cents

farso wrote: »

. . . Also, as she has recieved funding already for two years of uni, any second, or indeed first year study will not be funded at all. Im assuming that the same would happen to your brother and then he would be in the same state again.

He will get his second year funding paid because his mitigating circumstances was partly caused by them not assessing his loan/grant properly.

The_One_Who

But why wait for so long to get his finances sorted? If he wasn't getting his loan properly for the first two months then he should've chased it up then, not at the end of the year. Also, if you want mitigating circumstances then you need to go to a tutor before the exams and let them know. They can't help if they aren't aware of it.

my_two_cents

The_One_Who wrote: »

But why wait for so long to get his finances sorted? If he wasn't getting his loan properly for the first two months then he should've chased it up then, not at the end of the year. Also, if you want mitigating circumstances then you need to go to a tutor before the exams and let them know. They can't help if they aren't aware of it.

The answer to this lies in the ff: The chemical imbalance in the brain i.e. Depression, Depressive stupor, the Limitations Act that allows a child under 18 or someone with mental health problem to bring a claim donkey years later. . .

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The_One_Who wrote: »

But why wait for so long to get his finances sorted? If he wasn't getting his loan properly for the first two months then he should've chased it up then, not at the end of the year. Also, if you want mitigating circumstances then you need to go to a tutor before the exams and let them know. They can't help if they aren't aware of it.

Yes he did chase it up, many many times throughout the year. Thanks for even less sympathy some of you seem rather dead on the inside.