Payment of Tuition Fees Guidelines
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1. As a student of the College you are required to pay tuition fees. Details of tuition fee charges together with information regarding financial support from the College or elsewhere, including scholarships, bursaries and loans, are available on the web-site. Students who are not able to enrol, as a result of not having paid/made arrangements to pay their tuition fees, are not permitted to attend any classes or access any of the College’s resources or materials.
2. Where students are classified as Home students and they are taking out a loan from either Student Loan Company (SLC) or Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) in order to pay their tuition fees, they should make the necessary arrangements with SLC/SAAS in advance of enrolling on their course. Students in this category are required to provide evidence of their application for an SLC/SAAS loan, to the College. Where this is not provided, the student will be expected to make the payment in line with the arrangements noted below.
3. Home students, who are meeting the cost of their own fees, are required either to pay the fees in full prior to enrolment, or within 5 weeks of enrolment, or to set up an instalment plan with the Finance Department.
4. Students whose fees will be met by a sponsor, such as an employer or any other party, must provide proof of sponsorship prior to enrolment. Examples of proof are a formal letter, email or purchase order from the sponsor.
6. Students who have not made the appropriate arrangements for payment of fees, as set out above, prior to enrolling, at the start of the course or for a subsequent year of study, will not be permitted to enrol for that year of study.
7. The following procedures may be implemented for students who do not meet their tuition fee obligations at the appropriate time, including those who do not meet any of the instalment plan payments, which they have agreed with the Finance Department:
- 14 days after the payment of fees is due, the student will be sent an e-mail by the Finance Department reminding them that tuition fees are due for payment
- 28 days after the payment of fees is due, the student will be sent an electronic notification and/or a letter by the Finance Department, to draw their attention to their outstanding tuition fees. At this point, if they do not make arrangements to pay their fees within three days, access to the College’s IT systems will be withdrawn.
- 42 days after the payment of fees is due, the student will receive a final letter noting that they have still not paid their outstanding tuition fees. If arrangements are not made to pay the fees within three days, the student will be excluded from College. This means that their enrolment will be terminated and they must immediately cease to attend any teaching activities and leave the College.