Terms of Enrolment and Website Terms
These are the terms on which London Maths & Science College Ltd teaches students and enters candidates for examinations. They are written to be read, not to be skimmed past, if anything here is unclear, ask us before you enrol.
At a glance
- Governed by the law of England and Wales
- No deposit, no registration fee
- Last updated 15 August 2026
A contract with us has two parts that people often confuse: teaching, which we provide, and examination entry, which we arrange with an awarding body on your behalf. They are priced separately, they can be cancelled separately, and the rules that govern them are different.
Who This Agreement Is Between, and What It Covers
This document has not yet been reviewed by a solicitor and is a working draft: London Maths & Science College should have it checked by a qualified adviser before the site goes live.
The agreement is between you, the student, or the person paying, or both, and London Maths & Science College Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 16822143. In these terms, "we" and "us" mean the college and "you" means the student and anyone who has agreed to pay fees for that student.
The agreement is made up of four things: the enrolment form or written confirmation you sign or accept; the fee schedule current at the time you enrol; anything specific we confirmed to you in writing about the course, the timetable or the examinations; and these terms. Where the enrolment confirmation and these terms say different things about your particular course, the enrolment confirmation applies.
If the student is under 18, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms and is responsible for the fees. The student is still the person we teach, and the person whose examination entry it is.
What We Have Told You Forms Part of the Contract
Under section 50 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015, information a trader gives a consumer about the service, anything said or written that the consumer takes into account when deciding to enter the contract, or when making a decision about the service afterwards, is treated as a term of the contract.
We have written this website on that basis. The prices, the teaching hours, the timetable blocks, the description of what is and is not included, and the statements we make about how examination entry works are contractual commitments, not marketing copy. If a member of staff tells you something specific in a consultation and you rely on it, that becomes part of your contract too. Ask for it in writing, and we will put it in writing.
The reverse also holds. We do not make claims we cannot demonstrate, and we do not guarantee grades or university places. No provider can honestly guarantee either, and a promise of that kind would be a term we could not keep.
Once the contract is made, a change to information that was given to you under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 only takes effect if you and we expressly agree it.
Fees and How You Can Pay
There is no deposit and no registration fee, and the price you are shown at the point of enrolment is the price you pay.
| Way to pay | How it works | What to know |
|---|---|---|
| Ten monthly payments | The course fee is divided into ten equal instalments across the teaching year. | The first payment is due before teaching begins; the rest fall on the same date each month. |
| Three termly payments | One payment at the start of each of the three terms. | Slightly lower in total than paying monthly. |
| Paid in full | A single payment before the course begins. | The lowest total price. Nothing is forfeited if you later withdraw, see cancellation and refunds. |
| Hardship rate | The pay-in-full price, paid in monthly instalments. | Available on request. We do not ask for documentation. |
Additional services, one-to-one tuition, revision intensives, additional mock examinations, textbooks supplied at cost, and services for external candidates, are charged as set out in the fee schedule and are payable when they are booked. Discounts, where they apply, are applied before payment rather than claimed back afterwards.
The Published-Price Guarantee
The price published for a course is held for the duration of that course. We do not increase the fee for a student part-way through the year, and we do not add charges that were not shown to you before you enrolled.
That guarantee covers tuition. It does not cover charges set by somebody else and passed on at cost, principally awarding body late entry fees and post-results service fees, which the awarding bodies set and publish themselves. Where we pass on such a charge, we pass on the amount charged to us, we show you the figure before you commit, and we do not add a mark-up.
We do not use price presentation that reveals unavoidable charges late in the process. The total is on the fees page and it is the total.
What the Tuition Fee Includes, and What It Does Not
| What you get | Included in the tuition fee? |
|---|---|
| Timetabled teaching, three hours per subject per week across 30 teaching weeks | Yes |
| Marking of set written work against the awarding body mark scheme | Yes |
| The internal mock examination series | Yes |
| Assessment, references and UCAS support for taught students | Yes |
| The diagnostic assessment taken before enrolment | Yes, and it is free whether or not you enrol |
| Examination entry through our centre | Included in the published course price, or charged per subject on its own |
| Access arrangements administration | No, charged once per candidate per series |
| Awarding body late entry fees and post-results service fees | No, passed on at the awarding body’s rate, at cost |
| One-to-one tuition, revision intensives and additional mocks | No, booked and paid for separately |
| Textbooks and equipment | No, supplied at cost if you ask us to obtain them |
Nothing in this table is a hidden extra: the same split is set out on the fees page, and the entry charges are listed there in full.
Examination Entry Is a Separate Matter
You cannot enter yourself for an A-Level. Awarding bodies accept entries only from approved centres, so when we enter you we are acting as the centre and taking on obligations to the awarding body as well as to you.
That has three consequences worth understanding before you pay an entry fee. First, an entry is made against a deadline that is set nationally and is not ours to move, the standard deadline for the Summer 2027 series is 21 February 2027. Second, once we have submitted an entry the awarding body has been committed and the cost is largely committed with it. Third, the awarding body’s rules bind you as a candidate: identification, prohibited items, examination conduct, non-exam assessment authentication and the rules on malpractice apply to you regardless of what you and we have agreed between ourselves.
We will confirm your entry codes, your board and your subjects with you in writing before we submit anything, and we will send you the awarding body’s statement of entry when it is issued. Check it. An error found in March is an administrative correction; the same error found in June is not.
What happens to an entry if you cancel or withdraw is set out on the cancellation and refunds page, because it is the single point where refunds behave differently from ordinary consumer services.
Attendance
You are enrolled on a taught course with a fixed timetable. We do not take a register for its own sake; we take one because a student who stops attending in January is a student heading for a grade nobody wants in August, and we would rather have that conversation early.
If you cannot attend, tell us. If you miss teaching repeatedly without explanation we will contact you, and where the student is under 18 we will contact the parent or guardian who agreed these terms.
Teaching that you choose not to attend is not refunded, and we cannot repeat a missed class privately as part of the course fee. What we will do is tell you what was covered, give you the materials and the set work, and mark that work as normal.
Where a class cannot run for a reason on our side, illness, a room problem, weather, anything else, we will either provide the teaching another way or reschedule it. If we cannot do either, we will reduce your fee for the teaching that was not delivered.
Conduct
The expectations are ordinary ones. Treat other students and staff decently. Do not disrupt teaching. Do not damage the building or the equipment. Do your own work, and follow the awarding body’s rules on non-exam assessment and examination conduct.
Where conduct falls below that, we deal with it in proportion: a conversation first, a written warning if it continues, and suspension or withdrawal of a place only where the behaviour is serious or persistent. Before we withdraw a place we will set out the reason in writing and give you a chance to respond, and you can use the complaints procedure if you think we have got it wrong.
If we do end the agreement for that reason, you pay for the teaching delivered up to that point and for examination entries already made, and we refund the rest. We do not keep prepaid fees as a penalty.
Malpractice in examinations and non-exam assessment is different, because the consequences are not ours to decide. Suspected malpractice is reported to the awarding body and investigated under JCQ procedures, and penalties can run to loss of marks or disqualification. This is explained on the complaints page.
What We Commit to
- To teach the specification you enrolled for, with reasonable care and skill, as section 49 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 requires.
- To provide the timetabled hours we published, or to make up the teaching if a session cannot run.
- To mark set work against the awarding body’s mark scheme and to tell you honestly where you stand.
- To make your examination entries accurately and before the deadline, once we hold what we need from you, and to confirm them to you in writing.
- To hold and apply access arrangements in line with JCQ regulations where the evidence supports them.
- To publish our prices in full, and to hold them for the duration of your course.
- To handle your personal information as described in our privacy notice.
- To answer a complaint within the timescales set out in our complaints procedure.
If the Teaching Is Not Good Enough
If a service is not carried out with reasonable care and skill, the Consumer Rights Act 2015 gives you a remedy: you can require the service to be performed again at no cost to you and without significant inconvenience, and where repeat performance is impossible or not provided within a reasonable time, you can require a reduction in the price. In a teaching context that usually means replacement teaching, additional marking, or a reduction in the fee for the part that fell short.
Tell us early. A complaint about teaching made in October can be fixed by October; the same complaint made after results day cannot be. The stages and timescales are on the complaints page.
Our Responsibility to You, and Its Limits
We do not exclude or limit our liability for anything that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. That includes death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of the terms about services implied by the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and any other liability that consumer law does not allow a trader to exclude.
Beyond that, we are responsible for loss and damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking this contract or failing to use reasonable care and skill. Loss is foreseeable if it is obvious that it will happen, or if we both knew it might happen when the contract was made.
We are not responsible for the decision an awarding body makes about your work. Our obligation is to enter you correctly, on time, and to run the examination properly at our centre, and to pursue a review or an appeal on your behalf where you ask us to. The mark itself, and the outcome of a review of marking, are the awarding body’s decisions under a regulated process with its own appeal route, described on the results, reviews and certificates page.
We do not accept responsibility for a university admissions decision, for a change in an awarding body’s specification or fees, or for a change in national examination arrangements. Where such a change affects what we have agreed with you, we will tell you promptly and, if the change materially disadvantages you, you may end the agreement and pay only for what has been delivered.
If you are enrolling for purposes connected with a business, some of the protections described on this page do not apply to you. Tell us if that is the case.
Changes to These Terms and to Your Course
We may change these terms during your course only for a valid reason, and only with notice. Valid reasons are: a change in the law or in regulatory requirements; a change in an awarding body’s rules, specifications or fees; a change to national examination arrangements; or a correction of an error or ambiguity that does not disadvantage you.
We will tell you in writing before a change takes effect. If a change materially disadvantages you, you may end the agreement, and you will pay only for the teaching delivered and the entries already made up to that point. We will not use this clause to increase your course fee.
We may need to change teaching arrangements, a room, a teacher, or the order in which topics are taught. Those changes are ordinary and we will make them without fuss. If we need to move the day or time of your timetabled block, we will offer you an alternative block; if none works for you, you may end the agreement on the same basis.
Where these terms are updated for new students, the version that applies to you is the version in force when you enrolled, unless a change is one we are required to make by law.
Ending the Agreement
You have a statutory right to cancel within 14 days if you enrolled at a distance or away from our premises, and we apply the same 14-day window however you enrolled. After that, you may withdraw at any time on notice. The full position, including what happens to examination entries already made and how refunds are calculated, is on the cancellation and refunds page.
We may end the agreement if fees remain unpaid after we have written to you and given you a reasonable opportunity to pay, or where conduct is serious enough to justify it. We do not charge late payment penalties or administration fees for a missed instalment. If you are struggling to pay, tell us before the payment is missed, the hardship rate exists for exactly this, and it is easier to arrange in advance than to unwind afterwards.
Using This Website
The content of this website belongs to us or is used with permission. You may read it, print it and share links to it. You may not republish it as your own or use it commercially without our permission.
We write these pages carefully and we check the regulatory statements against the published rules, but examination rules, awarding body fees and national deadlines change. The website is general information about how the system works. It is not personal advice about your situation, and it is not legal advice. Where a decision matters, an entry, a carry-forward, a deadline, confirm it with us in writing for your own case.
Where we link to another organisation’s website, such as an awarding body or a government department, we do not control that content and are not responsible for it. We link because the page is worth reading.
We do not guarantee that the website will always be available or free of error. Cookies and similar technologies are covered in our cookie notice; accessibility is covered in our accessibility statement.
Law, Jurisdiction and the Rest
This agreement is governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland you may bring proceedings in your own courts.
Before anyone goes near a court, use the complaints procedure. Most disputes about a course are misunderstandings about what was agreed, and they are resolved faster in writing than in a claim form.
If a court finds any part of these terms unlawful or unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. If we do not insist on something straight away, that does not mean we have given up the right to insist on it later. You may not transfer your rights under this agreement to somebody else; a place on a course is personal to the student.
These terms were last updated on 15 August 2026.
Questions
Questions About These Terms
All of them together: your enrolment confirmation, the fee schedule current when you enrolled, anything specific we confirmed to you in writing, and these terms. Where your enrolment confirmation says something different about your particular course, it takes precedence over the general wording here.
Yes, if you took it into account when deciding to enrol. Section 50 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 treats information given about a service as a term of the contract.
We would still rather you had it in writing, not because we intend to argue about it but because memories differ. Ask us to confirm it by email and we will.
Only for a valid reason, a change in law, in awarding body rules, in national examination arrangements, or to correct an error that does not disadvantage you, and only with written notice.
If a change materially disadvantages you, you can end the agreement and pay only for what has already been delivered. We will not use a change of terms to raise your course fee.
We contact you and try to sort it out. There is no late payment fee and no administration charge.
If fees remain unpaid after we have written to you and allowed a reasonable time, we may suspend teaching and ultimately end the agreement. You would still owe the cost of teaching already delivered and of any examination entries already made.
Yes, for the published course prices. A tuition-only price is available where another centre enters you, and entry is then a separate part of the agreement because it commits us to an awarding body. The entry charges are listed in full on the fees page.
We provide the teaching another way or reschedule it. If we can do neither, we reduce your fee for the teaching that was not delivered.
If we had to move your timetabled block permanently and no alternative block suits you, you may end the agreement and pay only for what you have received.
Only for serious or persistent misconduct, or where fees remain unpaid after written notice. We set out the reason in writing first and give you a chance to respond, and the decision can be challenged through the complaints procedure.
If we do end the agreement, we refund fees for teaching not yet delivered. We do not keep prepaid fees as a penalty.
The law of England and Wales, in the courts of England and Wales. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland you can bring proceedings in your own courts instead.
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