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Course Acceptance Form Probems

  • 16-08-2011 12:43pm
    #1
    Musefan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 775 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I am inquiring about this on behalf of someone else. My friend downloaded the course acceptance form along with his grant application, and sent in his application , but kept onto this course acceptance form. When he accepted his offer to Queens University Belfast on the 4th of August, he contacted his local VEC to ask could he send the course acceptance form to Queens, before registration began, in order to have it filled in, in plenty of time. On the form, it states that you must have the form filled in on the day of college registration, the VEC said to go ahead and send it to Queens. Queens also agreed that they would have a look at it. Yesterday, he was called by queens, who said that they would need him to wait until registration on the 19th of september to have the form filled in. He went to his local VEC office, and the grants worker said that he would miss his first grant payment if he waited until registration on the 19th of september.The worker said that the course acceptance form needed to be returned by september the 1st, which seems impossible considering registration in most southern colleges does not begin until the second week in september or even later. He has previously been told by the same VEC office that there is no date which these forms have to be filled in by, which completely contradicts several other different answers he has received

    Can somebody point us towards where we might get a definitive answer- we have tried numerous websites, rang citizens advice and the HEA office. Nothing has yielded an answer. Thanks


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  • #2
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    this has come up for discussion so many times at rep meetings, here on boards, and god knows where else..

    the vec want the course acceptance forms asap.
    the college/uni wont give these until registration day.

    the vec wont change.
    the college/uni's wont change.

    the best you friend can do is get the form at registration day, send it to the vec, and the get a double payment when the second payment date is scheduled for that area.

    its a shít situation, but no one seems to care and no one will change on it anytime soon.


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