Students will only be permitted to join courses if the appropriate fees are paid or the students are exempt from paying course fees. The only exception is where employers or other sponsors are to be invoiced.

For most award-bearing courses there will be an integrated fee that will incorporate tuition, registration and normal examination fees. Supplementary examination fees will be charged as appropriate as mentioned in 4.below). For some courses, charges for materials and equipment may be included in the integrated fee or separately.

Where course fees are subject to agreement with an external body, such will take precedence over the RWC's Regulations.

Any default in the payment of fees will debar the student from subsequent course and examination entries.

Any default in the payment of fees will debar the student from subsequent course and examination entries.

The definition of a “course” for the Regulations includes linked units within one academic year. If units are taken in separate years, then they are regarded as being a separate “course” for each year.

Students enrolled on “full-cost” courses, NVQ assessment in the workplace and courses leading to awards of less than nine weeks duration will be liable to pay the full fees and no fee refunds, exemptions or reductions referred to in 2, 3 or 4 below will be considered.

Students who are themselves (or who are dependants of persons who are) in receipt of Family Income Supplement, Income Support/Income-Based Job Seekers' Allowance or Disability Working Allowance (but not Severe Disablement Allowance, which is not subject to means-testing) shall be exempt from the course fee for one course only if supported by a letter of evidence from the Department of Health and Social Security. This exemption does not apply to Adult Leisure and Recreation courses.

Fee reductions that apply in the first year of a course will normally continue for the remaining years of the same course, except for reductions based on specified DHSS benefit claims where the benefit is no longer paid, or where support from the Department of Education ceases. In the latter case a pro rata course fee will be charged from the date support ceases.

Full-time RWC staff attending courses for in-service training purposes approved by the SAM will be exempt all associated fees. Part-time RWC staff and volunteer tutors will normally be charged pro-rata fees according to the full-time equivalence of their work at the RWC. Fees paid by part-time staff may be waived if the training is deemed by the Principal to be of high strategic importance