Daughter left Uni, help needed accommodation costs.

adandem

Thanks timestar, post #41 explains why she is leaving.

She already has a high credit score from her extended BTec (triple distinction). Her course now has no relevance to what she wants to do.

She really wants to attend a local uni. Pros and cons really, if she stays she will incur further costs ie full course fees, living costs etc. Her course also incurs lots of extra costs for materials and equipment.

timestar

Sorry I should have read your explanation first.

If she really hates her current course/it's no longer what she wants then her best option is to walk away from her current course and start all over again doing nursing. Staying local will mean as you say that she can cut living costs although it obviously restricts her options for where to study. Given the significant difference in course the time spent studying on her current course, and credits would be non-transferable to the new course, it would be up to her if she wants to finish out her current year. She may have to simply put this year down to experience - albeit an expensive one. On a separate issue - does the university (current or intended) know about her ED?

adandem

Current uni - no. Intended - yes (she has included some details of it in her personal statement)

brunettifan

adandem wrote: »

Thank you everyone for your replies.
Okay, the reason she is leaving is very long winded but here's a quick version!
She had to leave her A level course in the first year due to a severe eating disorder, it was not a choice but a medical instruction.
Anyway, she is very arty so when she was well enough, she did an extended BTec in Art and Design although one of her greatest wishes was to be a nurse but always dismissed it due to her own issues.
She passed the course with flying colours and therefore assumed that a degree/career in this area would be the right road to go down.
So.. She is well down the road to recovery and feels that a future as a nurse is now achievable.
She is not enjoying the degree at all and knows it's not something she wants a future in as well as there being very limited opportunities.
I think she was just so happy to get to uni in the first place after bring in a very desperate position with her health.
She is looking at nursing courses at a local uni and don't think transfer would be likely even if she completes the first year.
Not a good position to be in but in some ways it's better to find out early on and the world is not short of graduates.
I understand that she needs to learn a lesson and stand on her own two feet, but as her parent I feel compelled to help her.
I am in my forties and still look to my parents for advice.;)

All life experience can be positive if you turn it to advantage. The things she learned on her Arts course are part of that. At her age she has many years of work ahead of her, changing tack is a minor thing at this stage.

Ignore those who say you are too involved. It sounds as if your daughter had come through a lot and is now seeing the light at the end of a very long tunnel. Good parents help and advise which is what you are doing.

Her empathy will make her a good nurse, and her life experiences and battles will also be useful.

One of my children completely changed degrees after 18 months, it was a difficult time for all of us, but it passed, and they now have the career that suits them.

Good luck.

ThemeOne

There can be a problem explaining why you left university at job interviews, but in my case it only occurred in the immediate aftermath. After a year or so, if it came up I simply said I'd been travelling for the required amount of time, and never said anything about it.

Looking back I suspect I could have done this right from the very start, just wasn't wily enough to think of it!

Person_one

Has she checked with the admissions tutors for the nursing courses that her btec will meet the entry requirements?

Best of luck to her, from an art graduate who is now a few months away from qualifying as a nurse, I wish her all the best!

adandem

Person_one wrote: »

Has she checked with the admissions tutors for the nursing courses that her btec will meet the entry requirements?

Best of luck to her, from an art graduate who is now a few months away from qualifying as a nurse, I wish her all the best!

Thanks, yes the uni she is looking at will accept her btec and her GCSE results were good too. She has tried to write her personal statement to highlight some of the transferable skills.
If she doesn't get in this September she will work and try and get some more experience. I believe they also have January admissions.

Well done to you!! All the best with your nursing career.;)

Person_one

If she gets interviews, feel free to have her drop me a PM for some tips.

V_Chic_Chick

With regards to the debt, I'd really suggest that you repost on this forum http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=16 There are a lot of people over there who know housing law very, very well.

However, my immediate instinct would be to make an offer of a payment plan in writing (yes, pen and ink) to CRM. Then, when they reject it, let it go to court. The judge will be far more sympathetic towards her if she can show that she is trying to pay off the debt but the company has rebuffed her efforts.

If she was to lose the court case and the judge found entirely in CRM's favour, then she would still have 30 days to pay before the CCJ went onto her credit records. That would give her time to find an appropriate alternative source of finance / for you to step in. https://www.gov.uk/county-court-judgments-ccj-for-debt

Fliparoo

adandem wrote: »

Hi, my daughter has left her university course and therefore her accommodation.
However, she still has to pay for her room for the whole year unless someone else takes it which seems very unlikely.
Her finance will cease (even though it was to pay for her room?) but she is expected to make the full payments.
I have tried speaking to the people who run her accommodation (CRM Ltd) but the people based at her office are very unhelpful. I asked about a payment scheme but they just said they would take her to court. Tbh, they seem very inexperienced in general and have always been very rude and lacking in knowledge whenever I have spoken to them.
I am clearly going to have to seek help but before I speak to the management company does anyone have any advice please?
Thanks:)

Please double check the contract. Did you or anyone else sign to be her guarantor? Surely before they would take your daughter to court they would attempt to get the full payment from a guarantor?