Can a College Refuse to Teach Units?

[ChocolatChip]

I know this is not in the right section, but I was hoping with the vast majority spending their time on Chatterbank, then someout out here may be able to help me;
I study at a college in the West Midlands, and I have had some problems with the teachers and their lack of support and 'unbothered-ness' that they have shown.
I am due to complete the course within a few weeks, and I was hoping to get a scholarship from Coventry University, due to achieving a high grade. But due to the fact that the college have not taught all the units that are meant to be, I am short of UCAS points, which means I will not get my scholarship. I do not have a huge amount of money, and that scholarship was vital for me to go to university. And no matter how hard I worked, I would've never had the chance to achieve these points.
I am so angry, and feel that I have been treated unfairly. Is there anything I can do In order to get these points? I need them desperately.
Please help!

[mollykins]

But if they can do more topics and get good grades which will get them the scholarship, isn't it worth it.

If you hadn't of been ill, would you have been able to do all the units?

[ChocolatChip]

I will get a loan to go to university, but I wouldn't have to take out so much if I had the scholarship. And the scholarship was very much in my grasp, I was only a few points off! but cannot make them up anywhere else, as I have achieved distinction in every unit I have done.

[sherrardk]

Is this your first or second year of the course? I am guessing it is your first year so maybe you could find a way of doing the extra units by yourself and paying the entry fee yourself? You could ask one of the nicer members of staff to assess your work for you?

[ChocolatChip]

I'm doing a BA Degree in Psychology, and I was ill before this course started, so it didn't make a difference to the course.

[ChocolatChip]

Sorry, I mean a BSc in Psychology!

[ChocolatChip]

No, this is my second year, and I finish in a couple of weeks.

[sophie_1003]

I know it's annoying but there's not much you can do now (even if the college admit they were wrong not to offer those units) so just focus on the fact that you won't have to start repaying your student loan until you can afford to. You also might get a bursary from the uni (I get £500 each year) to help towards costs and this is completely dependent on a means based test so it won't matter that you've missed out on UCAS points.

[ChocolatChip]

It's just so fustrating, because I worked so hard, firstly becuause I wanted to do so well. And secondly because I really did need and want that extra money.
I just feel that the other student have been so unbothered and taken on a CBA approach, and now, because of them, and the teachers willingness to accept this, it has cost me what I worked so hard for. Life eh?

[sherrardk]

Don't mean to be harsh but did you not realise sooner? You must have been totting up how many units you were doing.

[ChocolatChip]

No, because they kept telling us that they were going to teach us the last units towards the end of the year, and when I asked about it (towards the end of the year) they said they'd get to it, and it wouldn't take to long anyway. Then last week, they told us that they weren't going to teach the last units.
Plus they did tell us how to calculate the points, so I thought that it would probably total up fine.

[factor-fiction]

Well sorry, but I'm confused- I thought you said you are doing a BTEc and then you said you are doing a BSc in Psychology,

[ChocolatChip]

Someone asked me what I was intending to do at university. I'm intending to study Psychology BSc.
But at the moment, and the course I'm having trouble with is a BTEC national diploma in health and social care.

[sherrardk]

Factor - I thing CC is going to do a degree from September.

CC - sorry to hear that, it seems that they just ran out of time.

[factor-fiction]

Ok thanks for clarifying. I was confused because CC said "I'm doing a BA Degree in Psychology, and I was ill before this course started"

[ChocolatChip]

But it doesn't seem right does it?
They shouldn't 'run out of time', this is a place of education, and they should be trying to get people to be the best they can be, and by doing this they are compromising their students. And leaving me, and my family extremely disheartened.

[ChocolatChip]

Sorry Factor, I was trying to answer a couple of people at once. I apologise.

[sherrardk]

I understand how disheartened you must feel, maybe the college were being a bit over ambitious or maybe some of the other students were dragging their heels a bit. I hope that you do well wehn you get to Uni.