College switch and fees issue. Urgent help needed.

[rgurung]

Ok my niece switched her college halfway of her A level studies. She studied in the old college for a full year, paid the full yearly fee, but did not achieve satisfactory progress. She actually failed in few subjects. We paid a lot of fees to this private college in London but we were not happy with this college. So we decided to change the college, informed them before the start of the new term, and have already applied to the HO for a new visa. Now, the old college has sent an invoice asking to pay the new term fees saying we should have notified them about the change one full term earlier. My niece has never returned to that college after her AS level exams in June and I find it ridiculous that they try to extort from her parents by demanding random sum. We have already paid full fees to the new college where she will be doing one year intensive A levels. My question is are we obliged to pay the fees demanded by the old college? And will the home office reject her new tier 4 application because of this? Would be grateful for informed advice.

[Odie]

I am in the same situation with another private sixth form college in the South (another county not far from London).

My nephew and niece have just changed school today but their old school now demand us to pay an extra term fees even when we were there for a month. We don't mind them deducting whatever we paid but to demand more?

The other school has accepted us and we have paid deposit etc. They are very sympathetic to our situation and even gave us time to gather our funds in such short time.

The reason for leaving:

1. My niece and nephew enrolled in a sixth form private college to do their A-levels.
(Their parents enrolled them based on information from the college website ... big mistake. Never trust any website as they just either inflate positive information or being economical about it)

2. When they started after a week they immediately sensed that something was not right. Both of them found out their teachers were part-time as class starts mid morning and sometimes late morning until 6.30pm in order to facilitate part-time teachers time.

3. School wouldn't let them change subjects even when we informed them the teachers could not teach properly. (my nephew got 7As in his GCSE while my niece got 3As plus others Bs) Insist on them doing the subjects with teachers that were not teaching properly.

4. One teacher constantly swears in class i.e. using F word, then attributing this to "mental problem".

5. Another talked down and being sarcastic to overseas children using slang. I mean these children paid a lot to be here in good faith to be educated and that's the treatment they got. Well, the children did not know the teacher was sarcastic due to language issue.

Questions: (same questions as rgurung)

1. CAS numbers have been issued by the new school and all we need to do now is to submit all forms to UKBA for approval. But when we requested the old school to update UKBA they refused. Can they do that? Because now we have CAS numbers, confirmation of acceptance etc., given by the new school.

2. The old school now demand us (invoice us) to pay another term fee for both. Please note that my nephew and niece were only there for exactly a month and we paid 1st term fees etc in full including deposit. Where do we stand?

3. Can we report to UKBA this rouge-ish (they have Highly Trusted Status) college?

Please advice.

Thank you

Odie