Signing the EMA Learning Agreement

All new and returning students must sign an EMA Learning Agreement. For returning students, their EMA Learning Agreement signature is their formal application to the EMA scheme. For this reason, you must use the mandatory EMA Learning Agreement template, issued by Student Finance Wales, for both new and returning students.

Learning agreements can be signed in person on a paper form. You can also email the agreements to your students if meeting in person is difficult. You should request an email from the student as confirmation that they agree to their EMA terms. Please store these return emails in an electronic file for audit purposes.

Learning agreements should be signed before you break for the summer holidays. The deadline to sign them is the end of the academic year. If the student cannot do this due to compelling personal reasons, they must sign no later than the end of the first month (September) of the next academic year.