Registration
Qualifications
You are required to provide original evidence (certificate, transcript, letter from school on headed paper, letter on headed paper from the exam board) of your qualifications at registration in September. This will include:
- GCSE (or equivalent) English at grade C
- GCSE (or equivalent) Maths at grade C
- GCSE (or equivalent) Science at grade C
- Degree
If you no longer have these documents in your possession, due to moving house, or that you have simply lost them, then we strongly recommend that you start making plans to have them replaced straight away. Most schools or colleges will keep records of these exams, and should be able to provide a letter to confirm your grades, usually at no cost. However, if you are unable to gain this information from one of these sources, then you will have to go to your examining board to ask for a duplicate certificate or an official letter from them. Unfortunately, this can take from 15 - 20 days to provide, and you will have to pay around £25 - £30 for each one duplicated.
We DO NOT accept the following:- Photocopies (or documents that look like photocopies)
- Faxes
- Transcripts without an official University/College stamp or signature
- Degree Certificates without the classification written on it
- Any document that is supplied by an official body without a stamp or signature (i.e. it looks like a photocopy).
Documents that are the original but look like they could have been generated by a fax or photocopying machine must be stamped or signed in coloured ink by the institution awarding this document. Failure to do so will result in these documents being refused at registration.
If you are in any doubt about these documents, then please contact us so we can confirm if they will be acceptable.
Incomplete Registration
We are now obliged to register all students with the General Teaching
Council (GTCE) within 28 days of registering (this being the 28 days after
the course has started). Failure to show evidence of your qualifications
at registration and within this timescale may result in your removal from
the programme.
In addition, incomplete registration (complete registration is when you are
qualifications, health and CRB cleared) will mean that you will not be able to register fully as a student.
Until you are fully registered you will not be eligible to receive any
bursary payments to which you might be entitled.
ID
As well as academic documents you will also be required to provide one of the following, which indicates proof of legal name and date of birth:
- Birth Certificate
- Passport
- Change of Name deed
- EU Identity card
- Marriage Certificate*
*Please note that this document will only be acceptable in conjunction with a birth certificate. If you have a different name to the one indicated on your academic certificates, then you must bring proof of your change of name.