You must submit accurate and timely attendance confirmations so we can release fee payments to you on behalf of students.

Attendance means active and ongoing engagement with the activities and learning opportunities on a course. These include scheduled learning and teaching activities, but are not limited to these. This would not include freshers’ activities and other social events prior to the commencement of teaching.

You must confirm attendance for students at 3 separate liability points in the academic year. These correspond to the term dates you give us when you submit your courses on the Courses Management Service (CMS).

You should confirm attendance when the student has started attending the course and has become liable for tuition fees. Undergraduate part-time and postgraduate Northern Ireland students must attend for at least 2 weeks in the first term.

We need you to submit an attendance confirmation for all students each term. This will release the payment instalment for the liability period.

You should only confirm attendance after you've registered your students with the appropriate awarding body.

You're only entitled to receive the full fee loan (or fee grant for Welsh students) if you confirm attendance at each of the liability points.

Tuition fee payment schedule

We'll pay tuition fees in 3 instalments of 25%, 25% and 50%, once you've confirmed attendance. The table below outlines the payment dates.

To view specific payment dates for academic years 2022/23 and 2023/2024 download the tuition fee calendar.

To ensure we can pay your fees as early as possible, you should confirm attendance by close of business on the Thursday before the main payment dates. These are in October, February and May.

After the main payment dates, we'll make BACS payments each Wednesday. To ensure that we can pay you on the Wednesday, you should confirm attendance on SIS by Thursday the week before.