Attendance during holidays

Most students will not attend a Learning Centre or work placement out of term or during holidays. Therefore, they will not be eligible to receive EMA payments during these periods.

However, some students may be eligible to receive EMA payments during holiday periods. This includes students on summer courses or work placements which are an integral part of their programme of study.

These students must still fulfil your attendance criteria and you should deal with them case by case. You should ensure that you have sufficient processes in place to track and record their attendance during the holiday period.

A student who fulfils all the requirements could theoretically be eligible to receive EMA for 50 weeks of any given year. However, this would only happen in very exceptional circumstances.

Over the course of receiving EMA, eligible students are entitled to a total of 117 positive or negative confirmations. Holiday allocations are not counted in this total.