Tuition fee charges are raised for each academic year, not by study year. You are charged for each month you study within an academic year. Each academic year runs August to July.
For example, if you start your study in October you will be charged for 10 months, October to July, in your first year of study.
This means:
If you are on a 12 month MRes course and start in October, you will be charged for 10 months in your first year of study and 2 months in the next academic year.
If you are on a 36 month PhD course and start in October, you will be charged for 10 months in your first year of study, 12 months in the next two academic years and 2 months in the next academic year.
If you are a Home fee status student or being charged the Home fee rate, you will be charged the fee rate applicable to the academic year which the study occurs and charges are raised. The PGR Home fee rate typically increases each academic year.
For International fee status students fees are normally are fixed at the level charged in the first year of the course.