I want to go back to uni after failing in past!

uredzz

Hi.

Just wondered what my position would be.....

Went to uni in 2004, but sacked it off due to personal reasons in 2005. So, i didnt even finish my first year. I then went and worked overseas for over a year. Now ive just got back i feel like giving it another crack.

Does anyone know what processes you have to go through. Do i have to approach other uni's as if from square 1? which i'm guessing would be the case.

I was a mature student, now im even maturer!

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks

Serenity

If you want to go back to the same uni course then try contacting your tutor and see if you can re-enter. I dropped out of 2nd year last November for personal reasons but I applied for re-admittance and am going back this September.

misskool

Are you intending to apply for the same course? If you are, try the same uni first (unless you didn't have a good time).

If not, then yes, you have to do the whole application process again (sorry!). I think top-up fees also come into effect this year, although there should be more bursaries available for those who need it.

Barcode

The same uni will often readmit you. I'm 25 now. When I was 18, I went to do English at UCL. Various factors led to a total failure of the first year, I repeated, did fine, but realised it was not what I wanted to do. When I withdrew, it was made clear that were I to come back, being admitted would only be a formality (surprising really, my grades were nothing to shout about).

Anyway, I went to work for three years, and reapplied the traditional way through UCAS. I know the requirements are sometimes more flexible for mature students. In my case, I already had the standard four A-levels, and was doing two more during the evenings as something to do apart from my job. As I understand it, evidence of recent study is likely to stand you in good stead.

You might want to consider applying to some of the better universities. My course requirement was AAB, but the mature students I know on it have a variety of different qualifications (one I know barely managed to complete G.C.S.E's). As you get older, these sorts of things become less important, and experience matters.

It's probably worth e-mailing the department where you want to study and asking what their policy is on mature students. If you have already done A-levels, and I'm assuming this is the case, then you'll likely receive unconditional offers. It should (I think) be a simpler process.

uredzz

Thanks guys.

i went through via an access course. Think i might try contacting the department although they probably hate me there for just leaving. worth a shot though. although i'd like to try a different uni, closewr to more sports and slightly less pubs. cheerz

chugalug

Hi, I did the same as you. I passed my access course in 99 and started at Uni. I left before the end of the first year and then reapplied but not until 2004. I worked in the meantime but I didnt have to take another access course and I was admitted to a different university.

What you have to do first is decide whether you're going back to the same uni/course or a different one. If its different then you'd have to start your UCAS process again.

The problem I can see is with funding. Generally you're allowed one false start so it wouldnt normally be a problem. You do say though that you worked overseas and that could be a problem. In order to qualify for funding you have to have been resident in Britain for the previous 3 years. If you've been abroad for a year then you wouldn't be funded. You'd have to wait, work in Britain for 3 years and then apply again for funding.

I would check with your local authority whether this is still correct but I think you're going to hit a brick wall. Good luck.

uredzz

K.

hopefully thats not right. gonna check tomorrow though. theres enough people who go on a gap year abroad in between college and uni, so surely they wouldnt qualify either?!

uredzz

This is off directgov website (for student finance direct)

Who can apply in 2006/2007?
The financial help outlined in these pages is for students who are:

on a higher education course (or a postgraduate course of Initial Teacher Training)
normally living in England
Residence
Normally, to qualify for the standard student finance package, on the first day of your course you must:

have been ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK, Channel Islands or Isle of Man for the three years immediately before starting the course, other than wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education
be ‘ordinarily resident’ in England
have ‘settled status’ within the UK (under the terms of the Immigration Act 1971)


This is off the HM CUSTOMS AND REVENUE website:

'The term “ordinarily resident” is not defined, but its established meaning is that a person is ordinarily resident if they are normally residing in the United Kingdom (apart from temporary or occasional absences), and their residence here has been adopted voluntarily and for settled purposes as part of the regular order of their life for the time being'

So, just in case anyone was in the same boat as me, probz not!, there ya go.