Ds attended College 2022/3 to do an HNC (Saas funded)
Last Sept he started Uni but got Covid really badly & had to return home & suspend studies.Uni was very helpful & didn’t charge us for the time there
(Sept – early Nov) so no Saas funding used.
It seems he may have had long covid as this July he went into Heart Failure from viral Myocarditis.He was in high needs ward in hospital & very ill.
His Consultant suggested he did not re-start Uni at this point & wrote a ‘to whom’ letter. Uni suspended (but I forgot to sort Saas in all the stramash)
Come Sept he felt a bit better & spoke to his old local College about doing a yr 1 HND to keep his brain going over the winter. They 'signed him up’ but only told him after that he's already done 50% of the course & there were only 8 students as College had tried to cancel it but SQA made them run it: a 'Cinderella' course
Sadly he’s become ill again. On Consultants advice he had lots of booster vaccinations & it set off a problem with his heart. He hasn’t been able to attend / study for last 5 weeks he can barely get down the stairs. 2nd cMRI on Monday.
I contacted College to ask for a meeting re his options. It took 2 weeks for them to reply & when we went in his Course Head had not bothered to come along with the ‘catch up plan’ as promised. His Head of Dept came instead & said:
‘we don’t think he can catch up at this point but we wondered if he’d like to volunteer to help the Tutor on his old course for work experience’.Well, maybe?but we've also been told that we’ll need to move his Saas funding from his Uni to the College to pay for this year as ‘he signed up for the course’.
I am reluctant for him to ‘spend’ a years funding on 3 weeks of lectures. It's not College’s fault he is ill again (or his, we could not have expected the advised boosters to have this effect or he would not have had them). College have not contacted him or offered any support (despite knowing that, as an Autistic & Dyslexic student he needed considerable DSA funded support before for HNC)
I need to call Saas & sort this out.
Do I have any option but to move the funding to College & ‘waste’ a year?
Thank you if you read this far. Any advice welcome.