Funding for my last year at uni - advice please

Oldernotwiser

Dan_Tyson wrote: »

hi
Im really confused if i can get funding;
i have had two years funding for a foundation degree, but have failed it
i want to do another 2 year foundation degree in another subject do i have the funding?
thanks

Have you failed the whole thing or just a couple of modules? Are you sure there's any point in starting something else from scratch?

student_advisor

Humphrey10 wrote: »

From what SLC have said to me, I think everyone gets a minimum of 4 years funding (though like student_advisor says in some situations you can get more), so I think you would get funding for another 2 year foundation degree.

Everyone (some exceptions - v complicated) starts each new course with
"length of course" + 1 year - "any years already funded"

So if you do a 2 year FdA, you do not have 2 years of funding left over to go and do a FdSc.

Dan: You have done a 2 year Foundation Degree but failed, so do not hold the qualification, to do another Foundation Degree, you have 2 + 1 - 2 = 1 year of funding left so you would have to self-fund the first year.

You can apply to have the year you have failed to be discounted under compelling personal reasons if there are significant personal reasons why you have failed (i.e. serious illness/close family bereavement). You cannot apply for CPR if you have not worked hard enough or chose the wrong degree (not saying that's the case here!).

Humphrey10

student_advisor wrote: »

Everyone (some exceptions - v complicated) starts each new course with
"length of course" + 1 year - "any years already funded"

Oh I see, I'd misunderstood what I'd been told by SLC.
They said I could apply for one more year of funding for a BEng, I'd assumed this was because I'd already used 3 of the 4 years I was entitled to, but you are saying the 4 years comes from the fact the BEng course is 3 years long, which makes sense I suppose.

(My situation - I competed one year of a BSc. (and started the second year, but this was discounted for personal reasons like you say is possible in your post).
Then a two year FdEng (although I didn't claim a fee loan, but SLC tells me this still counts as 2 funded year from their point of view).
Now I am told by SLC that I can have one more year of funding for a BEng. Which all adds up to 4 years of funding)

student_advisor

Humphrey10 wrote: »

although I didn't claim a fee loan, but SLC tells me this still counts as 2 funded year from their point of view

a year is counted as funded if you receive any public funding, this includes maintenance loan/grant, tuition fee loan and the funding the government pays your institution for the rest of your fees.

The full cost of tuition fees is nearer £10k rather than the £3k unis are allowed to charge home students.

Humphrey10

I'd assumed the sponsor had paid the entire fees (not just my contribution), as all the places on my course are sponsored and the sponsors said it cost them £20k per student for the 2 year course.
But it would make more sense if that £20k just included the £3k fees and wages and equipment, not the full fees, because it's at a normal univeristy and we can claim student loans etc so I think I had just assumed wrong! I'll stop being so annoyed at SLC then!

surfsister

so am i right in saying that at then end of a ba honours 3yrs my daughter could get another years funding to do a bed or any other degree level cours for one more year? She gets full loan/grant etc

Oldernotwiser

surfsister wrote: »

so am i right in saying that at then end of a ba honours 3yrs my daughter could get another years funding to do a bed or any other degree level cours for one more year? She gets full loan/grant etc

If your daughter has a degree and wants to teach she should look at doing a Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) which is a one year funded course. BEds are normally 3 or 4 year courses for people who are doing their first degree.