ICON College students may be eligible to receive financial support to help them through their period of study at ICON. Support may be available from a wide variety of organizations, depending on your individual circumstances. Some grants have to be repaid and others not so. Various application conditions normally apply when seeking financial aid. It is, therefore important to read the terms and conditions which may apply before making a formal application for financial support.
Internal Financial Support
External Financial Support
A good starting point to find out about possible financial aid available is to look at these various organizations and their websites:
UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service in the UK). www.ucas.com
Go to the ‘Getting Student Support’ link and you’ll find a section headed ‘Student Finance in England: Everything you need to know about student finance’. www.ucas.com/sfe
THE UK GOVERNMENT offers advice about a wide range of financial options available to students. www.gov.uk and look for www.gov.uk/student-finance
Attendance, engagement and behaviour expectations for all financial support:
Attendance: The College expects high levels of attendance in taught sessions. Attendance at taught sessions at ICON College is recorded via electronic fingerprint authentication reader; this is a biometric security method that verifies the identify of each student and logs their attendance. Students must attend classes on time; they cannot be signed in after 15 minutes of the start of the class, but they are allowed in for another 15 minutes. Any student who comes in after 30 minutes will be required to enter the class after the break when they will be allowed to sign in via the fingerprint reader only. If a student misses a class or contact session without providing a valid reason for this absence, then this will be recorded as an Unauthorised Absence (“A”) on the attendance register. (Full details are available in the College Attendance Policy and in the Student Handbook). To be eligible for financial support from the College, students are expected to have an attendance rate at least 80% during the previous semester.
Engagement: The College expects students to engage in all aspects of the learning experience. Engagement includes a number of indicators: contributing to class discussions (based on lecturer feedback); logging into the VLE at least once per week (based on VLE records); attendance at personal tutoring sessions at least once per semester (based on CRM records) and submission of assessed work on time or using the extensions process (based on assessment submission data. Other indicators of positive engagement include being an elected student representative, contributing to student surveys, and making suggestions via the Student Suggestions Box. (See the Student Handbook for further details). To be eligible for financial support from the College, students must be judged to be actively engaging in their studies by the Hardship Fund Panel.
Behaviour: The College expects students to exhibit an appropriate standard of behaviour, including not smoking in College buildings, switching off mobile phones in taught sessions and in the library and being respectful to staff and students, and avoiding ‘unreasonable behaviour’.? These expectations are fully laid out in the Student Handbook, along with the Disciplinary Procedure. Before any disciplinary action is initiated, there will be a full investigation of the facts by the College Misconduct Committee to establish if there are justifiable grounds to invoke the disciplinary procedure. To be eligible for financial support from the College, the student should not have any pending or recent disciplinary actions.
