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We use an online payment system for our main summer entries. We charge £22 per resit module and then double that if they fail to make our internal deadline. The ‘late’ fee of £44 is only available to them for 1 week after our main deadline and then the online payment facility is turned off. They can beg all they like but there is no flexibility! They have a payment window of a month, plus the 1 week of lates. Plenty of time! Our internal deadlines are a good 2-3 weeks before the board deadlines so that we don’t have a last minute panic re entries and are in control of when our EDI files are ready. It also means we can start looking at numbers early. The amount we came to was by looking at all the fees for all the different units we do and averaging it out as some are a bit more and some a bit less. As some practical unit are considerably more costly we charge the actual fee in those situations ie performing arts is something like £37 for example. As for the impact on achievement, some subjects they nearly always do better in a resit and some are not so predicatable. I discourage too many resits as I believe it impacts on results of first time modules being taken and I am convinced that now January can’t be used, having to wait a whole year before you can resit will mean resit results go down and students will be steered much more towards working harder on first attempts. Sarah Cassel-Gerard Examinations Officer Esher College Centre 64785 0208 398 0291 ext 318 0208 335 2531 (direct line) [ball2] From: The FE Exams Network mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Collinson Sent: 17 October 2013 09:25 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Exam Resit Fees Morning everyone I’m sure this has been asked before on this forum so sorry for repeating, but I wanted to ask what your policy is regarding charging students for resits. If you could answer the following questions I’d really appreciate it: Do you charge for resits? If no, what is the reasoning for this? When do you charge resit fees, after 1st attempt, 2nd attempt, etc? How much do you charge? Exam fee alone or plus admin fee? How do you charge the students? Invoice or cash up front before entry? Has this had an impact on achievement and success in your centre? Any responses would be really helpful. Regards Stephen P Please consider the environment and don't print this email unless you really need to. Stephen Collinson - Examinations Officer Direct: 01429 283814 | EMail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Hartlepool College of Further Education, Stockton Street, Hartlepool TS24 7NT | Switchboard : 01429 295 111 | www.hartlepoolfe.ac.uk<http://www.hartlepoolfe.ac.uk/> This message is sent in confidence for the addressee only. It may contain confidential or sensitive information. The contents are not to be disclosed to anyone other than the addressee.Unauthorised recipients are requested to preserve this confidentiality and to advise us of any errors in transmission. Thank you. ________________________________ This email is confidential and is for the attention of the addressee only. Esher College accept no responsibility for information, errors or omissions contained in it. If you received this email in error, please inform us by reply and delete all copies from your system. No legally binding commitments are, or will, be created by this email and where it is our intention to create such legally binding commitments, we will do so through hard copy correspondence or documents. All email received and sent by us may be monitored to protect the business interests of Esher College.