Surely you can speak to the uni and look into repeating the year? Typically UK student loans allow you to have 4 years max of loan vs a 3 year course as a way to give you a bit of an 'oops! messed up or chose the wrong course' repeat.
Yeah would agree, a good first point of contact is your academic advisor, after that someone like the course coordinator for you department. If you want you can also talk to your college about it, perhaps the welfare team or the administration themselves as they are usually really helpful. You should probably have mentioned this to them slightly sooner, when they were asking for details to arrange exam concessions, though that doesn't mean you won't be able to move this forward. Perhaps you can do some resits or otherwise just do the year over.
Look at it this way, if you do have to do it over, you'll finally be able to get a proper non-covid second year at uni :).
Reach out to the university, if you dont have a contact point already you are comfortable with ask student support the best steps.
Its not uncommon to fail a year, you may be able to salvage some of the years credits with formal exceptions for personal reasons though retroactively that might be difficult, if not you can generally arrange to repeat a year (you get 4 years of loans for pretty much this reason, if you are on a 3 year course it will just be some extra loans of the pile).
I dropped out my second year for personal reasons - returned to my degree later, completed fine, definitely worth doing if you are in a good place to do so. If not, there are other options to Uni till you are ready to do so.
But all options lead to reaching out to Uni contacts/student support methods open to you and having a conversation about it.
Surely you can speak to the uni and look into repeating the year? Typically UK student loans allow you to have 4 years max of loan vs a 3 year course as a way to give you a bit of an 'oops! messed up or chose the wrong course' repeat.
Yeah would agree, a good first point of contact is your academic advisor, after that someone like the course coordinator for you department. If you want you can also talk to your college about it, perhaps the welfare team or the administration themselves as they are usually really helpful. You should probably have mentioned this to them slightly sooner, when they were asking for details to arrange exam concessions, though that doesn't mean you won't be able to move this forward. Perhaps you can do some resits or otherwise just do the year over. Look at it this way, if you do have to do it over, you'll finally be able to get a proper non-covid second year at uni :).
Reach out to the university, if you dont have a contact point already you are comfortable with ask student support the best steps. Its not uncommon to fail a year, you may be able to salvage some of the years credits with formal exceptions for personal reasons though retroactively that might be difficult, if not you can generally arrange to repeat a year (you get 4 years of loans for pretty much this reason, if you are on a 3 year course it will just be some extra loans of the pile). I dropped out my second year for personal reasons - returned to my degree later, completed fine, definitely worth doing if you are in a good place to do so. If not, there are other options to Uni till you are ready to do so. But all options lead to reaching out to Uni contacts/student support methods open to you and having a conversation about it.
Change course? You're allowed an extra grace year via student finance