Is it not likely that we HEIs, out in the market place, and without
guidance, will be the losers in what could/should have been a much
simplified system by having to write of changes that may effect fee
entitlement to both the SLC and LEA and to include the new regulation
students on AS1/2 reports?
Mark Judge
Student Records
Brunel University
On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:26:08 +0100 Eleanor Martin <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> It leaves the LEAs up the proverbial creek without a paddle. My "local" LEA
> is extremely worried about these matters, because they will still have a
> duty to determine whether a student not only is eligible for fees support
> but continues to be eligible for such support. Unless they are told of
> factors which affect a student's eligibility (intercalation, transfer,
> repeat period of study, progression to next academic year), they are not
> going to be able to make this determination. They are worried that there
> will be endless wrangles between students, LEAs, SLC and HEIs, each blaming
> the other for not providing them with proper information. It may be that
> when (if?) we ever get any concrete advice from DfEE and SLC on these
> matters our fears, and that of LEAs, will be allayed, but until then they
> won't be.
>
> Incidentally, has anyone actually received anything in writing from either
> the DfEE or the SLC about the annual reporting exercise? If so, I'd be
> glad to know of it!
>
> Eleanor Martin
>
> At 12:45 04/06/99 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >Roger's point about students who have failed and are
> >required to withdraw is noted.
> >
> >What I am concerned about is students who are repeating a
> >year of study.
> >
> >I was under the (probably deluded) impression that that
> >such students are nevertheless still eligible for a loan.
> >Given that they have to pay it back anyway, it's fairly
> >immaterial whether or not they happen to be repeating.
> >What does bother me is the element of the tuition fee
> >which the student does not have to repay (ie the LEA/SLC
> >contribution). Surely in the case of a repeating student
> >there will be no entitlement to, for the want of a better
> >phrase, free money. In which case the LEA, who determines
> >the eligibility for monies, must need to know if a student
> >is repeating a year, in order to remove the tuition fee
> >element from its calculations.
> >
> >Quite where this leaves the LEAs I've no idea.
> >
> >Yours in utter bewilderment,
> >
> >
> >
> >Nic Seager
> >Assistant Registrar
> >City University
> >tel: 0171 477 8025
> >fax: 0171 477 8559
> >
> >http://www.city.ac.uk
> >
> ============================================
> Eleanor Martin, Assistant Registrar, Academic Division,
> UEA.
> Tel. 01603 592205
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Mark Judge
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