University Fees / DebtCollection Agency

Mr.Sky

Hi all,

I appllied for Student Finance England for tuition fee loan and at the same time I completed my first year at university. At the end of the year Student Finance England said that I am not getting any funding. Now the uni has said to me I need to pay the £9000 for tuition fee. They are also involving a debt collection agency. I do not work or have financial capacity to pay this.
I said to uni I can pay £200 a month through a payment plan which they refused.

What to I do now as I have debt collection agency in my back?

Please advice

Marktheshark

Ignore the third party interloper debt collector .
wait to see what they do next.

fireblade28

Why are you not getting student loan funding?

Presumably something has gone very wrong because this is always in place before you actually go to university.

It doesn't surprise me that the uni want their money. This will also cause problems for your second year.

DCFC79

Have they said why your not getting the funding ?

Apologies for my ignorance but i dont know much about student finance, when you apply for the first year is that amount to cover you for the whole year or is it for year 1 then you apply again for year 2 ?

Mr.Sky

Thanks for all the posts so far...

According to Student Finance England if you have resided in UK for 5 or mroe years you are considered as home student. Even after proving this they made a lot of other things that was not actually written in their information. I have been in UK for 6 years and they said that I'm not getting finance just because I was not working during my full time course.

DCFC79

Mr.Sky wrote: »

Thanks for all the posts so far...

According to Student Finance England if you have resided in UK for 5 or mroe years you are considered as home student. Even after proving this they made a lot of other things that was not actually written in their information. I have been in UK for 6 years and they said that I'm not getting finance just because I was not working during my full time course.

Should you have been working ?

Was it part of the course ?

Mr.Sky

No, they said that right at the end of my course. How was I supposed to go back in time and work.They did not informed me right at the start that in order to get funding I should work, but rather they for some reason said that when the academic year was had just finished.

Voyager2002

Mr.Sky wrote: »

Thanks for all the posts so far...

According to Student Finance England if you have resided in UK for 5 or mroe years you are considered as home student. Even after proving this they made a lot of other things that was not actually written in their information. I have been in UK for 6 years and they said that I'm not getting finance just because I was not working during my full time course.

Check what the rules actually say...

For many purposes, being in the UK as a student does not count as residing in the UK.

Anyway, I find it incredible that you could begin a course and get most of the way through the first year before they told you whether or not you were eligible for funding.

Kim_13

Tuition fees are paid to the uni 2 in instalments are they not, so surely the first one would have been paid or the uni would have contacted you for payment/taken you off of the course when it wasn't paid. First and foremost I'd be querying the situation with both the uni and SFE.

They can't take money you don't have, though they could make you bankrupt; this would trash your credit history for 6 years. (I would prefer this if being asked to pay for a years tuition that is of no use; presumably SFE are saying they won't fund the remainder of the course / the uni won't let you on it anyway due to the dispute?) Having completed a year you should get an HNC, but you won't have this if the uni are witholding your results due to the issue.

Before declaring you bankrupt, debt collectors can attempt to recover the 9k by selling things that you own. Do you own anything of value? If anyone that you live with has assets, they will need to move them elsewhere before anyone turns up, or be able to prove that they own them and not you.

missbiggles1

Mr.Sky wrote: »

Thanks for all the posts so far...

According to Student Finance England if you have resided in UK for 5 or mroe years you are considered as home student. Even after proving this they made a lot of other things that was not actually written in their information. I have been in UK for 6 years and they said that I'm not getting finance just because I was not working during my full time course.

Living in the UK while a full time student doesn't count towards the eligibility period for student funding - information on that is very clear.

jonesMUFCforever

After reading the first post the first thing that came to mind was the OP non resident?
Subsuquent posts confirmed this.

I wonder if the OP can claim funds from his own country to put towards these fees?