Retaking Modules/ Year & Student Finance

Fire_Fox

I am a mature student on the second year of a full-time foundation degree, and have an offer of a place on the third year (full honours degree) once I pass the second year. As some of the regulars may know, I was ill on and off throughout the last academic year (seasonal affective disorder/ anxiety/ insomnia/ mild depression!) and have official mitigating circumstances for almost all my modules.

Just received my transcript and I got 70% in the exam I sat having missed half the taught sessions, whilst I was signed off by my GP and without finishing the essay question. Obviously I am delighted and quite shocked!!

The coursework for other seven modules is half finished and I have three weeks to hand it in or fail the year: I hope to return to college and retake some/ all of these modules next academic year. The obvious thing to do is to hand in the work for the two modules that stressed me out the most - Professional Development and Work Experience.

However I don't know what the situation is with student finance if I am retaking the entire year bar one module or if only retaking five of the eight modules. I remember there being a thread ages ago that said I would still be classed as a full-time student for council tax purposes, but no idea how it works for student finance.

I will still have to attend college for the same number of days as the modules I will (hopefully) have completed are self-study/ voluntary work. I work sixteen hours a week and don't feel able to take on any additional hours going by how ill I was last year. I usually get a full maintenance grant and loan: I am guessing I wouldn't get the grant even tho there is mitigation not simply failure?

Thanks in advance.

MrsManda

Providing your university classes you as repeating the year, then you should receive the same student finance that you currently have.
'If you defer or repeat a year due to circumstances beyond your control, you may be offered full support when you return to your studies.'

Fire_Fox

Would that also work if I only repeated some of the modules due to circumstances beyond my control?