Study delay and requirement to report this

You must report your circumstances to a Dean of Students within two months after they have occurred.

Furthermore, you must always be able to submit written proof of the circumstances you invoke.  This may be a medical statement or another document (social work statement, therapist, official report, legal document, etc.).

You can report this by e-mail (e-mail to studentendecaan@tilburguniversity.edu and enclose the evidence) if the circumstances are not very far-reaching or if you are not yet sure whether you will be delayed.  If things are a little more severe and the delay is certain to occur (or worse: you have already been delayed), make an appointment with one of the dean of Students.

You are only entitled to FOS or possible extension of the performance grant if you do not yet have a diploma and if you are delayed in the period in which you are still entitled to a performance grant (in other words: the first four years of your performance grant).  Any delay you may experience thereafter will be at your own expense and risk.

This means that you must have suffered the delay within the first four years of your (first) higher education study. If you first studied elsewhere for two years before you started your studies here, this period has already expired after two years at Tilburg University. You must submit your request for financial support or a performance grant just before the end of that period.

Students who already have a HBO diploma, can no longer claim financial support, because they have already studied for four years and moreover already have a final diploma in higher education.

See also DUO: study delay, on the various provisions of the performance grant (only available in Dutch).

Please note: foreign students without a Dutch study grant can also claim financial support if they are delayed in the first four years of their first study in higher education.

When special circumstances are reported that (may) lead to a delay, it can be discussed which actions can be taken to limit the delay as much as possible.

Agreements are made about the study progress and the possible possibilities for financial compensation, or advice to the Examination Board. Even for students who no longer claim financial provisions, it is therefore advisable to report circumstances in time.

In the event of a delay due to special family circumstances, you can only claim FOS. Only if you are (have been) ill yourself can you also call on the facilities of DUO. Both facilities are explicitly subject to the reporting obligation and the dean of Students is the one who decides whether you are eligible. He is also the only person who is authorized to support an application.

Reporting special circumstances does not mean that you automatically qualify for a financial settlement or other provisions. The nature of the circumstances, the impact on your study and the causal relationship between the circumstance and the study delay will always be examined.

For the recognized grounds for study delay, seeArticle 3 of the Student Financial Support Regulations in the Profile Fund.

This reporting obligation is described in the StudentCharter, art. 6 of the Student Financial Support regulations in the Profile Fund.

There are special arrangements for: 

• Studentswith a chronic illness or disability
• Studentsengaged in top-level sports  
• Studentswho are pregnant and give birth or become fathers

Don't wait too long to report, even if you think it will be not too bad, or that you will solve it yourself.  Study delay is only taken into account from the moment you report it.