Help! SFE have put me in a dire Financial Hardship situation

silvercar

Does the university have a hardship fund?

could you start tutoring privately (or any other part time/ weekend job)?

sheramber

Have you spoken to the school about it?

Since they offered the bursary what do they say about the situation?

Bitcoinguy

silvercar wrote: »

Does the university have a hardship fund?

could you start tutoring privately (or any other part time/ weekend job)?

I am looking for ways out of this financially. There is no hardship fund. But as you may understand, this is not just a matter of finance, my teaching career is in jeopardy and worst case scenario, I'd have to wait another 12 months to re-apply onto another Teacher Training course. I was very well positioned in my career, working my way up to become a FT Teacher, I was confident leading classes etc and if I am not doing this for another 12 months, what do I do? I will lose out 12 months of my life and most importantly my career progress would lose the 'momentum' its had since some time. It is distressing. Teaching is not a skill I can follow a course online and learn within a few weeks. If I am not in the class teaching my students, I am not developing my class management skills, I am not finding new ways to educate my pupils and I am not creating that bond with my students in order to help my students in class..it takes some time, which is why this course last atleast a year.

Bitcoinguy

sheramber wrote: »

Have you spoken to the school about it?

Since they offered the bursary what do they say about the situation?

The school offered no apologies and showed no compassion. They just said, "if you are appealing to SFE, please do so and we wish you the best of luck and hope for the best. However, you still would need to come for the Teacher Training course or withdraw from the course. Please let us know how you would like to go ahead."
I basically am in a situation where I am having to go to the school to teach and train despite that fact that I am not being paid, until I hear from Student Finance Appeal(which apparently takes upto 4 weeks).

[Deleted User]

Start looking for a new job? Beg your old job for your position back? But the appeal as long as it takes only looks at facts not your personal situation, who told you what etc. so you'd only be waiting for another no.

silvercar

Either:

a) the bursary is coming from the school and so they should work out another way of paying you as SFE can't make a payment to a non-eligible student

or
b) the bursary is being paid from the government via SFE and only eligible students can receive it.

Working out which applies to your case would help you decide if you have a chance of being funded.

I will lose out 12 months of my life and most importantly my career progress would lose the 'momentum' its had since some time.

Plenty people take a year out of their career, often to earn enough to subsidise themselves through the next stage of study. You can regain "momentum". You could also volunteer in a teaching capacity to keep your hand in while you earn elsewhere.

[Deleted User]

The bursaries the school pay out are limited to the same rules as SFE as they come from the same pot from the government, just paid by the school as a wage.

Failing begging or borrowing the money if you really want to continue teacher training see what loans & grants are available back home where you will be eligible.
Or a job a TA and self fund the course whilst working?

Starrystarrynight1

Your appeal to SFE will not be upheld. They have no discretion to make payments to an international student. You need to contact the equivalent in your home nation to see if they can offer any assistance.

I'm wondering how you filled in your application (be it online or on paper) to have got through to submitting it as, if correctly answered, the system or the guidance with the paper form, will have shown you to be ineligible.

sheramber

It appears it was the school's responsibility to establish if you were eligible for a bursary.

(d) Determination and notification of eligibility
3.7
The ITT provider must determine whether a trainee is eligible to receive a bursary
and inform them in writing if this is the case. ITT providers should ensure that trainees
are informed of whether they are eligible for the bursary in good time before the start of
their ITT course.
3.8
ITT providers are responsible for determining an individual’s eligibility for a
bursary. An individual is only eligible for a bursary when this is confirmed by their ITT provider

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/697563/Initial_teacher_training_bursaries_funding_manual_17-18__1_.pdf