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 What to do if you’re in financial hardship. 

• 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 Home  · Customer Self-Service

• 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.

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 Repaying your student loan: Overview - GOV.UK

• 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 Home  · Customer Self-Service 

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 Home  · Customer Self-Service

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 Student Enquiry Centre 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