What to bring with you to enrolment

Here is a list of things you need to bring:

• One form of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, please see below for accept­able forms of identification.
• Visa/​Permit or Home Office let­ter, if applicable.
• Your exam results/​certificates, par­tic­u­lar­ly your GCSE Eng­lish and Maths.
• Proof of up-to-date ben­e­fit evi­dence, includ­ing your Nation­al Insur­ance Num­ber, please see below for accept­able forms of evidence.
• Pay­ment, if applic­a­ble. Please see below if you will be required to pay any course fees and how to pay.

NB: If you want to apply for sup­port to pay for your course fees from Stu­dent Fund­ing, you will need to pro­vide your income evi­dence and com­plete an online appli­ca­tion online. Proof of House­hold Income if less than £35,000 gross, can be your most recent payslip(s) or Tax Cred­it Award Notice 2022 – 23.

Fee remis­sion is avail­able to stu­dents on some Fur­ther Edu­ca­tion cours­es in the fol­low­ing circumstances:

*Low Income Learn­er has to be employed and earn­ing less than £18,525 Gross per annum – you will need to pro­vide evi­dence (wage slips) of your salary. Please bring 2 months’ worth of your lat­est pay slips. 

Please note: In addi­tion to the above, you may be enti­tled to fee sup­port from stu­dent finance if your house­hold income is less than £35,000 Gross for Entry/​Level1/​Level 2 courses. 

19+ years old FE stu­dents study­ing cours­es at lev­el 2 and below who are unem­ployed and wish­ing to enter employ­ment and need skills train­ing, will be eli­gi­ble for full fee remis­sion where the learn­ing is direct­ly rel­e­vant to both the individual’s employ­ment prospects and the needs of the local labour market. 

For fee remis­sion pur­pos­es a stu­dent is defined as unem­ployed if one or more of the fol­low­ing apply: 

• They receive Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), includ­ing those receiv­ing Nation­al Insur­ance cred­its only. 
• They receive Employ­ment and Sup­port Allowance (ESA)
• They receive Uni­ver­sal Cred­it and their earned income from employ­ment (dis­re­gard­ing ben­e­fits) is less than £345 a month (stu­dent is sole adult in their ben­e­fit claim) or £552 a month (stu­dent has a joint ben­e­fit claim with their partner) 
• Are released on tem­po­rary license, study­ing out­side a prison envi­ron­ment, and not fund­ed by the Min­istry of Justice. 
• Not­ting­ham Col­lege will use their dis­cre­tion to fund oth­er students: 
  • They are in receipt of oth­er state ben­e­fits (list of eli­gi­ble ben­e­fits below) and their earned income (dis­re­gard­ing ben­e­fits) is less than £345 a month (stu­dent is sole adult in their ben­e­fit claim) or £552 a month (stu­dent has a joint ben­e­fit claim with their partner).
• Income sup­port
• Hous­ing benefit
• Coun­cil Tax ben­e­fit (not sin­gle person’s allowance)
• Pen­sion Guar­an­tee Credit
• Dis­abil­i­ty Liv­ing Allowance
• Per­son­al Inde­pen­dence payments
• Depen­dants of indi­vid­u­als in receipt of any of the above ben­e­fits – must be named on the ben­e­fit evidence.
• Asy­lum seek­ers on the equiv­a­lent of a means test­ed ben­e­fit – AZURE card, Aspen Card and issue let­ter with the student’s name on, Local author­i­ty sup­port under sec­tion S23C or S23CA of the children’s act 1989, S21 nation­al assis­tance ACT 1948 and those with sec­tion 4 support).
• Depen­dants of indi­vid­u­als in receipt of Work­ing Tax cred­it who are them­selves unem­ployed – must be named on the award letter.

• Cash
• Cheque made payable to ​“Not­ting­ham College” 
• Deb­it or Cred­it Card 
• Approved Advanced Learn­er Loan 
• Approved HE Stu­dent Loan 
• Sponsor/​Employer Let­ter must include a Pur­chase Order num­ber, Name of stu­dent, Course title and amount of the course fees the com­pa­ny is covering 
• Instal­ment Plan
  • If the course fee is £200 or less or the course dura­tion is 10 weeks or less, then the full course fee includ­ing all exams and costs is payable at enrolment
  • Course fees for cours­es over £200 and more than 10 weeks in dura­tion can be paid in instal­ments as pre­scribed in the college’s instal­ment agree­ment with the stu­dent at enrol­ment. The first pay­ment will be tak­en at enrol­ment and the pay­ment plan must be com­plete at least six weeks before the learn­er com­pletes the course.
  • If the course costs more than £200 but less than £500 and is 10 weeks or more in dura­tion an instal­ment plan of up to four months is avail­able, but this must not exceed the dura­tion of the course and must com­plete at least six weeks pri­or to the end of the course.
  • If a course costs more than £500 and is 10 weeks or more in dura­tion an instal­ment plan of up to 6 months is avail­able, but this must not exceed the dura­tion of the course and must com­plete at least six weeks pri­or to the end of the course.