NEC 60th Birthday Bursary full terms and conditions

PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATIONS FOR THE NEC 60TH BIRTHDAY BURSARY ARE NOW CLOSED.

About these terms

Please also refer to NEC’s general enrolment Terms and Conditions.

If successful, you will be registered and enrolled with us as an NEC student. You must abide by our Charter, Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Policies in force.

We may make changes to these Terms from time to time and the version that is applicable to you will be those that were in force at the date of your first enrolment with us.

If you wish to decline a bursary offer from us prior to enrolling with NEC, please email marketing@nec.ac.uk. We will then withdraw our bursary offer and confirm this in writing. Any offer of a place on one of our courses would not be affected.

Eligibility Criteria

NEC will make an informed decision on each application and decide whether the application has been successful and the bursary that will be provided. The decision will be made, and you will be informed as to whether your application has been successful, during the week commencing 14th August 2023. If you do not hear from us you have been unsuccessful.

If we are of the reasonable view that you do not meet our Eligibility Criteria and you wish to appeal, we will ask you to provide us with such proof as we deem necessary to make a new assessment. You must supply us with the requested evidence as soon as is reasonably possible.

Eligibility requirements for the NEC 60th Birthday Bursary:

• You must be at least 18 years of age.
• We especially welcome applicants from a lower socio-economic background for whom finance may be a barrier to study and who may otherwise miss out on educational opportunities.
• You should be able to demonstrate that your current financial circumstances preclude you from self-funding your course fee(s). You may be required to provide evidence of your financial circumstances if offered the bursary before it can be confirmed and applied.
• NEC’s courses are taught and assessed in English. Your English language skills should be of a sufficient level to enable you to complete your course.

Receiving the Bursary

The successful applicant of the NEC 60th Birthday Bursary will be able to enrol on an NEC course or courses of their choosing and if applicable will be able to sit their examination through NEC’s exam service. You can find out more about NEC’s exam service on our examinations page.

• The chosen course has to be supplied through the National Extension College and studied online.
• If applicable to the chosen course, examinations must be sat through our exams service and abide by our exams service terms and conditions.

There is one NEC 60th Birthday Bursary available. In the event that we receive more than one application, not all applications will be successful.

If you are awarded the NEC 60th Birthday Bursary, we will ask you to confirm your enrolment on your chosen course by 30th September 2023. Unclaimed bursaries by that date will be awarded to another applicant in the event of non-booking.

The NEC 60th Birthday Bursary may be used for new enrolment only and will not be applied retrospectively.

Breadth of the bursary

This bursary is intended to enable adult learners to continue their education in order to return to the workplace or to help them to progress in their career. It is reserved for those for whom fiinance may be a barrier to study.

The NEC 60th Birthday Bursary will be for a maximum of £1,000 and will be for one student.

The total amount of the bursary awarded will be dependent on the course(s) chosen and must be fully spent within a period of two years (or sooner depending on the course(s) chosen and the course length(s)) from the award of the bursary in order to allow for exam fees, where applicable, to be covered by the bursary.

The successful applicant may use the bursary towards the full cost of your course fee(s) plus your exam fee(s) or any additional optional NEC tutorials or registration fees, if applicable, where these are fully covered by the maximum bursary amount.

Where the cost of your course(s) and exam fee(s) or any additional optional NEC tutorials or registration fees exceed the upper limit of the bursary, you will be required to cover any additonal excess costs yourself.

Students must enrol on at least one course to be eligible for the bursary. The bursary may not be used solely for exam or registration fees or towards additional optional NEC tutorials.

If the course cost(s) plus exam/additional optional NEC tutorial/registration fees amounts to less than £1,000 you will not be entitled to claim the balance of the bursary.

The bursary may not be exchanged for cash or other alternatives.

Marketing and promotion

By applying for NEC’s 60th Birthday Bursary you agree to work with NEC for publicity, course feedback and marketing purposes. You may be required to make yourself available at reasonable notice for any publicity and marketing campaigns which we may want to run in connection with our bursary schemes, which may include but not be limited to case studies, photographs, blogs and vlogs, or interviews.

How we may use your personal information

We will use the personal information you provide to us to administer the 60th Birthday Bursary award. We will retain all documents we receive in connection with the bursary along with your other student records in accordance with our Data Protection Policy.

Once you are enrolled with NEC, the college will contact you using the contact details provided upon enrolment. It is your responsibility to check the email account you have given regularly for important information regarding your bursary.

We may, at any time, and at our sole discretion, modify these Terms and Conditions with or without notice to the User. Any such modification will be effective immediately upon public posting. Your continued use of our Service and this Site following any such modification constitutes your acceptance of these modified terms.