19+ Discretionary Bursary

This support is available to students who live more than 2 or 3 miles away from campus. Support can be worth up to £5 per day. Please be aware if you have been referred or mandated to attend your course by Job Centre Plus, you are not eligible for travel support. We advise you to speak to Job Centre Plus to access any support that they can offer.

You will be able to access to items that Course leaders have identified are essential to your study programme. Equipment will need to be returned on completion of your course.

Some courses may also have compulsory trips designed to enhance your learning experience, you may have access to funding which supports you to attend these trips.

If you are aged 20+, and the legal guardian of a child who requires childcare whilst you study, you may be eligible to receive support towards your childcare costs to cover your timetable so that you can fully participate on your course.

The childcare costs will be paid directly to the childcare provider, who would require an Ofsted Report, and be graded as ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’.

Please be aware, if you have been referred or mandated to attend your course by Job Centre Plus, we cannot provide childcare support. If you are eligible to receive free childcare hours (15/30) you must use these in the first instance, any hours not covered we may be able to support. Further information on free childcare hours can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs

If you do not have access to a laptop or computer, you can apply to loan a laptop.

You may be eligible for free or discounted study. You can also apply for an Advanced Learner Loan to help with the cost of learning.

If you do pay fees, you will be asked to pay for your course when you enrol. However, if your course fee is being paid by a third party (e.g. your employer) you will be given the appropriate documentation at enrolment. Instalments do not apply when an employer is paying.

Where fees are payable, a student who does not comply with the payment policy, i.e. deposit not paid/missed payment may not be guaranteed a place on the course, but may still be contacted for payment.

For fees of £200 and above a 25% deposit is required on enrolment and the balance is to be paid by direct debit collection in three monthly instalments thereafter.

If you are wishing to obtain a statement of past results, and have not been enrolled with the College for the present or previous academic year, a fee of £15 is required to cover the administration costs involved.

You be be eligible for a refund in the following scenarios:

• Where the College cancels a course, a refund will be provided.

• A learner who is paying fees is able to withdraw from their course within 14 days of the enrolment date; this is known as the cooling off period.

• A £15 administration fee is deducted for any refund processed after the cooling off period has passed.

• Other refunds by application only.

Non-European Union students please contact our International team on 0191 226 6323 or email international@ncl-coll.ac.uk for fee information.

Please contact the Apprenticeship team for further information on 0191 200 4781 or email apprenticeships@ncl-coll.ac.uk