Repeating

If you are not attending, you will not be charged the tuition fee.

Students must be fully enrolled and attending University to receive tuition fee loans and support with living costs. If you are repeating modules without attendance, you will effectively be taking a year out of your studies for student finance purposes. You should notify your Student Finance Service about your break in study and your funding will be put on hold, to be picked up when you return and progress to the next year of your course. You can do this on the Student Finance England website.

If this is causing you financial hardship, speak to the Advice Team.

If you are required to repeat any modules with attendance tuition fees will be based on the number of modules or credits that are to be studied. You should check with your course what your tuition fee for the year will be as it is likely to be less than the full fee. Your Faculty will be responsible for contacting Student Finance England to advise them of the correct level of tuition fee.

Provided that the course you are attending is full-time and it is only your attendance on that course that is part-time, you may be eligible for the full student finance package for fees and living costs (subject to meeting the other eligibility requirements) for the period of time you are expected to be in attendance at University. However, this depends on your previous study (see next section below). Please be aware that you will only be entitled to funding for living costs for the part of the year that you are repeating.

Eligibility for student finance in a repeat year of study will depend on your previous study history. The government provides funding for the duration of a course of study plus one additional year if needed. Therefore, if a course has a duration of 3 years, you would be entitled to 4 years of funding in total (3 + 1 = 4). So if you need to repeat one year of your course and you haven't previously repeated a year or studied on a HE course prior to this one, you will be entitled to the full student finance package for the repeat year.

However, if you have undertaken a previous course at HE level, your entitlement to funding will be reduced to reflect this previous study and although you may not be entitled to the Tuition Fee Loan or Maintenance Grant you would still be entitled to receive the Maintenance Loan (plus the Childcare Grant, Adult Dependants Grant and the Parent's Learning Allowance if applicable).

If you were unable to progress with your course of study due to compelling personal reasons (CPR), Student Finance England has the discretion to disregard the affected year/s of study and continue to provide full support for the duration of the course. Although the affected year/s of study would be disregarded, you would still be liable to repay any loans taken out. Compelling personal reasons could include mental/physical illness, bereavement, etc.

If you had compelling personal reasons which prevented you from progressing with your course we would suggest that you contact Student Finance England to advise them of your circumstances. They would require documentary evidence to substantiate your claim.