Tuition Fees Help

Strawberry123_2

I left university in december because my dad was very ill. I have been told I have to pay half the tuition fees which is £1600. I think this is unfair and it will cause me great financial hardship. Can I challenge this?>

I would be really gratefu for any help

ultimatedingbat

Did you take out a student loan or were you self funding?

Are you intending to return to the course?

In terms of weeks, you were most likely approximatly there for 1/2 the year so that's why they're asking for half the money.

You may be a blwe to challenge it if you are planning to return to the course as you can continue.

In terms of the course if u were self funding they can ask for it, if u took out a student loan I am assuming you pay it back like any other student

Taiko

By accepting a place on the course, you have created a contract that obligates you to pay the full fees of £3225. They're actually being rather generous in letting you pay half.

whitfreak

All depends on the terms you signed up for with the university. And whether or not you have a tution fee loan (I dont know if you leave early means you have to repay earilier or anything).

When I was at uni (just pretution fee loans) if you dropped out before 1st December then you didnt have to pay any tutition fees. Drop out on the 2nd and you were liable for the whole year.

If you are planning on restarting your course again next year, then there maybe something they can do. But ultimately you took up a place which they then couldnt offer to someone else, so its down to them.

Taiko

It's individual university policy if they charge you for the time that you attend. You could attend for one day and they can charge you full fees.

The 1st December comes into it for most students as one of the qualifying conditions to receive the fee loan is that you are in attendance 3 months after the first dayof the academic year. For most, the academic year begins 1st September, so some universities waive it because they don't want to do debt collecting from the students.

Our local universities don't waive fees, and just pro-rata them based on attendance, then do debt recovery on students when they realise it's not being paid by the SLC. It's all there in the T&C's, but students don't read it half the time.