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When you take a period of interruption, withdraw from study, transfer to a different course, repeat all or part of a year, resit exams, this will impact your funding from Student Finance England

Please note: a new funding system, the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE), is expected to apply to courses starting from January 2027 - funding information for these courses may differ from that outlined below. For the latest updates please see the

Interrupting your course - Undergraduates (inc GEM, GEN and PGCE)

What happens to your funding if you interrupt your studies? 

  • With your department/school you agree a last date of attendance which you put into the online interruption form 

  • The date you last attended determines the fee charged for the academic year. If you are in attendance on:

    • Term 1, day 1 (or for new students 3 weeks after the start of the academic year) – 25% of the fee  

    • Term 2, day 1 – 50% of the fee 

    • Term 3, day 1 – 100% of the fee 

  • This date also determines how much student maintenance loan you can receive. If you are interrupting for health reasons (during an academic year) please put ‘Health’ on the interruption form, as this means Student Finance will add 60 days onto the last date of attendance, when assessing your new entitlement to maintenance support. 

  • You are not entitled to the maintenance loan while you are on interruption from your studies, unless you can show Student Finance that not receiving the loan will place you in financial difficulty . 

  • If you have an overpayment of maintenance loan Student Finance will ask for this to be paid back, or you can select to have it deducted from the following years loan. 

  • Interrupting your course can affect how many years of tuition fee funding you can access in the future from Student Finance.

  • You are not able to recieve Bursaries or Scholarships from the University while on interruption.

  • If you have any questions about how your funding from Student Finance will be impacted please raise a query for the Funding and Financial Support team

  • NHS LSF will not be paid while you are interruption. Please contact the NHS LSF team for more information - +44 (0)300 330 0521
  • NHS Bursary for medical students will not be paid while you are on interruption. Please contact the NHS Bursary helpline for more information - +44 (0)300 330 1345
  • Students on a full time course are NOT usually entitled to any state benefits - eg Universal Credit - unless they have dependants or a long term medical condition during a period of non attendance. If you do have dependents, a disability or long term medical condition, you may want to contact the Student Advice Centre +44 (0)115 8468730 or email SUAdvice as your individual circumstances may make you eligible for benefits.
 

Interrupting your course - Postgraduates/Research students

What happens to your funding if you interrupt your studies? 

  • With your department/school you agree a last date of attendance which you put into the online interruption form.  

  • The date last attended determines the fee charged for the academic year. If you are in attendance on:

    • Term 1, day 1 (or for new students 3 weeks after the start of the academic year) – 34% of the fee 

    • Term 2, day 1 – 67% of the fee  

    • Term 3, day 1 – 100% of the fee  

  • You will only be asked to repay any student loan if you interrupt using a retrospective date and a payment has already been received after the agreed interruption date. 

  • On your return to study the Masters or Doctoral loan will resume for the relevant year of study, once the University has informed Student Finance that you are back on your course. This make take a few weeks to be resolved. The loans aren't available for a period of repeat study. 

If you have any questions about how your funding from Student Finance will be impacted please raise a query for the Funding and Financial Support team

  • If you receive a stipend please discuss with your supervisor/department who awarded the stipend. 
  • Students on a full time course are NOT usually entitled to any state benefits - eg Universal Credit - unless they have dependants or a long term medical condition during a period of non attendance. If you do have dependents, a disability or long term medical condition, you may want to contact the Student Advice Centre +44 (0)115 8468730 or email SUAdvice as your individual circumstances may make you eligible for benefits.
 

Withdrawing from your course - Undergraduates (inc GEM, GEN and PGCE)

What happens to your funding if you withdraw from your course? 

  • You decide the date you withdraw and put this on the Withdrawal Form.  

  • This date determines the amount of fee due for the academic year. If you are in attendance on:

    • Term 1, day 1 (or for new students 3 weeks after the start of the academic year) – 25% of the fee  

    • Term 2, day 1 – 50% of the fee 

    • Term 3, day 1 – 100% of the fee  

  • This date also determines how much maintenance loan you can receive. If you have been overpaid Student Finance will contact you and ask you to repay. If you aren’t able to pay in a lump sum you should be able to arrange an affordable repayment plan with them.  

  • If, after withdrawal, you decide you want to study in the future, please carefully check the funding package at that time. How many year/part years of tuition fee funding you have already received will most likely impact what you can borrow for another course.  

  • You will start to make repayments to the loans borrowed the APRIL after you withdraw from the course, and once you reach the relevant income threshold for repayment

  • If you have any questions about how your funding from Student Finance will be impacted please raise a query for the funding and Financial Support team  

 

Withdrawing from your course - Postgraduates/Research students

What happens to your funding if you withdraw from your course? 

  • You decide the date you withdraw and put this on the University's Withdrawal Form. 

  • This date determines the fee charged for the academic year. If you are in attendance on: 

    • Term 1, day 1 (or for new students 3 weeks after the start of the academic year) – 34% of the fee  

    • Term 2, day 1 – 67% of the fee 
    • Term 3, day 1 – 100% of the fee 
  • You will only be asked to repay any overpaid student loan if the withdrawal date is a retrospective date so you may have received a payment after the withdrawal date. 
  • The Masters and PhD loans are a once only product. You are not able to receive a second loan for another course unless you withdraw from the first course due to compelling personal reasons – e.g. ill health, disability, bereavement 
  • You will start to make repayments to the loans borrowed the APRIL after you withdraw from the course, and once you reach the relevant income threshold for repayment
  • If you have any questions about how your funding from Student Finance will be impacted please raise a query for the funding and Financial Support team
  • If you receive a stipend please discuss with your supervisor/department who awarded the stipend. 
 

Transferring course - Undergraduates 

What happens to your funding if you transfer course? 

  • If you decide to transfer course the ‘previous study rules’ apply. This determines how many years of tuition fee funding you can access for the new course  - see more on our information sheet.  

  • When you transfer to a new course Student Finance carry out a calculation which applies to your eligibility for fee loans. This is:  

    • Length of the new course, plus a year, minus any year/part year of previous study.   

  • The fee loan entitlement is applied to the final year first, then the penultimate year etc. You may not have enough fee loans left to cover all the fees for the new course so may have to pay some of the years’ tuition fees yourself. Check this carefully before finalising any course transfer.  

  • Maintenance funding from Student Finance continues to be paid while you are studying until you interrupt, withdraw or graduate.  

  • If you have any questions about how your funding from Student Finance will be impacted please raise a query for the funding and Financial Support team

 

Transferring course - Postgraduates/Research students

What happens to your funding if you transfer course? 

  • You can transfer course when you have Masters of PhD loan BUT you must be transferring to a course that is eligible for the relevant loan. 

  • You cannot receive a loan for a repeat year of study.

  • This may mean that you do not have a loan for a period of time until you progress into the next year of study.  

  • If you have any questions about how your funding from Student Finance will be impacted please raise a query for the funding and Financial Support team

  • If you receive a stipend please discuss with your supervisor/department who awarded the stipend.  

 

Repeating or resitting a year / part year of study in attendance- Undergraduates (inc GEM, GEN, PGCE)

Repeating in attendance

  • If you are repeating all or part of an academic year you should be fully registered and attending the University for the relevant period. You should be advised by your School/department which modules you have to complete over the semester/year.
  • Complete online registration for the relevant academic session when invited to do so by the University.
  • The tuition fee should be be pro-rated depending on how many credits you are taking. For example, if you are taking 60 credits you will generally pay half of the standard full year fee. 
  • Student Finance will award tuition fee funding for the length of your course plus one year. As long as you haven’t already used your plus one, or ‘gift’ year, you will be able to apply as usual for your tuition fee loan and loan for living costs. During the period you are registered you will also be eligible to apply for University Bursaries/Scholarships and Hardship Funds.
  • If you have already used your gift year, depending on the reason for this you may be able to apply for additional years’ funding from Student Finance due to ‘Compelling Personal Reasons’. Please contact the team through the for more information. 
  • If you are in attendance for a semester or term, rather than a full academic year, Student Finance will pro-rata your funding for living costs. You only receive funding while you are registered and attending University.
  • NHS LSF will not fund any years/part year of repeat study unless the repeat is due to medical reasons or extenuating circumstances. Please contact the NHS LSF team for more information - +44 (0)300 330 0521
  • NHS Bursary for medical students may be awarded for one additional year on top of the standard number of years. Please contact the NHS Bursary helpline for more information - +44 (0)300 330 1345
 

Resits / first sits not in attendance - Undergraduates (inc GEM, GEN, PGCE)

  • If your status is ‘resit-not in attendance’ you do not complete online registration for the relevant academic session with the University. It is similar to being ‘suspended’ or ‘interrupted’ for a period of time.
  • During this period you are not entitled to receive any statutory support from the Government via the Student Loans Company (SLC). There is no tuition fee loan for the period, but you will also not be charged any standard tuition fee by the University, although there may be a re-sit fee to pay. There is no financial help from the University towards the resit fee.
  • If you are ‘resit–not in attendance’ for the full year and do not register at all, it does not count as a year of study for student finance purposes.
  • If you are registered at the University for part of the year, then you may be eligible for funding for that period of time, and be liable for any tuition fee charged by the University. This will count as a full year’s funding when Student Finance calculates your years of entitlement.
  • The University will not pay any Bursary and/or Scholarship while your status is ‘resit–not in attendance’.
  • You will need to find a source of income for the period you are not in attendance at University. The majority of students find work; some return home to live and manage with family support.

Students are NOT usually entitled to any state benefits - eg Universal Credit - unless they have dependants or a long term medical condition during a period of non attendance. If you do have dependents, a disability or long term medical condition, you may want to contact the Student Advice Centre +44 (0)115 8468730 or email SUAdvice as your individual circumstances may make you eligible for benefits.

 
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