HND Funding?

schutz

Hi, I have tried to contact studentfinancewales but I need my bloody id to get any further and I am not home until Friday and would like to get a rough idea of the answer by then.

I've just had 2 years in university, but have left and come home. The first year, along with everyone I know turned out to be a mess and my "actions" in the first few months made me fail. I just alternated between home and uni not doing much after the first few months of uni life took its toll on me lol.

As I signed a housing contract I couldn't get out of at the start of the first year I pretty much had to come back even though I did not want to as I would have to pay it anyway and with me being in Wales, the tuition fee of only just over £1000 didn't hurt that bad compared to if I stayed at home and had to pay the £3000 rent regardless, and thus another year was wasted. I passed the first exams but then left to work for a few months then got laid off.

Now im stuck here, no job and applying for anything with little luck. I was wondering if I could get funding for a HND?, I know you get funding for your course, +1 year or whatever it is but im not to sure what applies to a 2 year HND. Would be alot easier as being at home is a hell of alot easier to do any work and even though I failed the year overall, the only exams I did attempt I achieved the highest marks out of everyone I know on my course so its not asif im stupid, just a fool

Cheers

Lokolo

You have had 2 years funding.

HND is 2 years. You can get a 3 year max paid for. You've had 2, so you get 1 year left. You will get final year funded, not your first year I believe.

Thats how England works anyway.

Fang_3

Lokolo wrote: »

You have had 2 years funding.

HND is 2 years. You can get a 3 year max paid for. You've had 2, so you get 1 year left. You will get final year funded, not your first year I believe.

Thats how England works anyway.

That's completely wrong. In this situation it would entirely down to the discretion of your local authority or Student Finance Wales.

Lokolo

Fang wrote: »

That's completely wrong. In this situation it would entirely down to the discretion of your local authority or Student Finance Wales.

Can I ask why?

pcombo

Not sure but in Scotland you get 3 years funding for HN courses.

If you do HNC which is year 1 and fail you can use HND year 1 to do it again, then do HND year 2.

Indie_Kid

Lokolo wrote: »

You have had 2 years funding.

HND is 2 years. You can get a 3 year max paid for. You've had 2, so you get 1 year left. You will get final year funded, not your first year I believe.

Thats how England works anyway.

In England, it's something like: numbers of years for course + 1 - years already taken.

So, give the OP's situation on a 3 year course:
3 + 1 - 2 = 2 years of funding of a 3 year course.

Fang_3

Lokolo wrote: »

Can I ask why?

He's had two years on a University degree course, which would last three years. Under current rules he is entitled to the length of the original course, plus one year further. So the likelihood is that he would get funding, but that would depend on how the LEA or Student Finance Wales interpret the rules.

Oldernotwiser

Did you complete the first year successfully the second time around?

schutz

Cheers for the help guys, I think most of you are right in saying it depends on the LEA. Just need to find my damn info now, this ART ID malarkey has caused me and others problems before

Its kind of confusing with a HND, I am technically entitled to a further 2 years funding but if it was a degree, I would have to pay the first year, im just quite unsure its a bit of a mess haha.

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Did you complete the first year successfully the second time around?

Sadly, nope. Got offered a half decent job which I worked at for a few months until they laid a load of people off. That coupled with the fact I really didn't want to be in that uni anyway and was only staying for my housing contract. I was passing fine, passed the first exams with 70%+ in most but alas its still a fail.

Taiko

Fang wrote: »

He's had two years on a University degree course, which would last three years. Under current rules he is entitled to the length of the original course, plus one year further. So the likelihood is that he would get funding, but that would depend on how the LEA or Student Finance Wales interpret the rules.

Sorry, you're the one in the wrong here and Lokolo is right. It's length of the new course, not the old one.

Fang_3

Taiko wrote: »

Sorry, you're the one in the wrong here and Lokolo is right. It's length of the new course, not the old one.

Then could you explain how my friend did two years (fully funded) of a four year course, and graduated last week on another three year degree in which she received full funding?