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2013/14 HE Student Finance
Assessing Eligibility Guidance
Department would not reimburse any costs incurred by the student in
obtaining such evidence.) This guidance is not exhaustive and SFE
should look at all cases carefully.
SFE will be able to identify potential cases of this kind from Section
5 of the PN1 application (no equivalent on PR1) and from the
Eligibility, Continuing Course section from the online application
form.
Self-funded Years – „Current‟ and „Old‟ System Students
165. When allocating fee support from the standard entitlement to the
remaining standard academic years of the course, it may be the case
that there is insufficient standard entitlement to allocate fee support
to all of those years. The student will need to self-fund the tuition
fees in the years to which support has not been allocated.
The standard entitlement cannot be allocated to non-standard
academic years of the course. However, a student who is required to
repeat a year of the course for reasons other than compelling person
reasons may still be eligible for fee support for that academic year. A
student who is not repeating will need to self-fund his tuition fees for
the relevant repeat year.
Standard entitlement of „old system‟ students who are continuing students
166. Regulation 25 makes provision for an old system student who began
a designated course before 1 September 2006 and is continuing on
that course in the 2013/14 academic year.
The standard entitlement to fee support of a continuing student is the
number of years remaining on his course after 31 st August 2006 plus
one, minus any academic years that begin after 31 st August 2006 for
which it was determined the student does not qualify for a grant for
fees in the course of assessing an application for support in respect
of an academic year of the designated course that began before 1 st
September 2006.
Students who attend a full-time course on a part-time basis
167. When a student is deemed eligible for support on a designated
course he is generally eligible for the duration of the course, subject
to the rules on tuition fee and living costs support and regulations 3
and 5. The fact that the student attends part of the course on a parttime
basis does not render the course itself part-time. As long as the
course is full-time the student should remain eligible for full-time
support. A possible scenario might be a student who is unable to
continue to attend full-time because of some unforeseen
circumstance such as ill health. The student might request to
undertake a particular year of the course on a part-time basis over
two years and their entitlement to fee support will be determined in
accordance with Regulation 13(5).
Students who attend a full-time course on a part-time basis are
subject to the following previous study provisions.
Examples:
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