CPD Offers

Congratulations on being offered a place!

Below you can find more information about your offer (including how the course is delivered and any attendance dates) and how to meet any conditions of offer or registration.

Courses that require set attendance dates (either online or in person)

Proof of qualifications checks

If your qualifications are listed as an outstanding element on your offer email, you will need to provide evidence if you have already completed your studies. Copies of qualifications should be uploaded using your Applicant Portal, once you have uploaded the document, don't forget to click 'next' to complete the upload. 

If you are currently studying your qualification, you will need to provide evidence of this qualification by either uploading to the Applicant Portal or emailing to pgadmissions@cumbria.ac.uk as soon as you complete the qualification.

Conditional offers

A conditional offer means that you are required to meet certain conditions before beginning your degree with us.

Any conditions of offer will be detailed on your offer email if you applied directly. Your conditions are also on your applicant portal.

A condition of offer may be:

• Passing your 30 hours Counselling Skills course
• Passing your honours degree at the required grade.
• Evidence of DBS (NMP)

Conditions of registration

Any conditions of registration will be listed in your offer communication. A condition of registration may be:

• Sending us further information such as references
• Sending us evidence of your GCSE and/or Level 3 qualifications
• Satisfactory clinical visits forms
• Confirmation of Professional Registration
• LEPAT
• Name change document / marriage certificate

Accepting your offer

Once you have decided that the University of Cumbria is the right place for you, it is time to accept your offer. You can accept your offer through your Applicant Portal.

Thank you for choosing to study at the University of Cumbria!

What happens if I can’t find my certificates?

Failure to produce evidence of qualifications which meet entry requirements by the 6th September 2025 for September programmes, or 4 weeks before the start date for courses that start in any other month, will mean that you may not be permitted to register and you will forfeit your place on the course. Access to Student loans will be withheld until you have completed all admissions checks for your course.

We can accept certificates, candidate statement of results, official transcripts or a signed letter on headed paper from your school, college or university confirming the qualifications awarded to you. We can also accept an email from your University sent directly to the Admissions Office dealing with your application.

Criminal Conviction Self Disclosure (Non-DBS Courses)

The University of Cumbria operates in differing contexts, such as:

• Under 18 year old students on campus.
• Vulnerable adults on campus.
• Nursery provision in the campus grounds at Lancaster.
• Under 18 year olds on campus visits through schools and colleges or attending events.

In order to protect both the individual applicant and the wider public, the University gives applicants that have firmly accepted their place on a course that does not require a DBS Check the opportunity to self-disclose.

Please contact the DBS Team if you believe this applies to you, and the DBS team will provide you with a self-disclosure form.

Student Finance funding

If you are planning on applying for Student Finance for a distance learning course, you will not automatically be asked to provide your ‘Right to Study’ evidence – however you will need to provide this in order for any Student Finance money to be released to you. You will need to email pgadmissions@cumbria.ac.uk with your ‘Right to Study’ document and let us know that you are claiming Student Finance and have provided your ‘Right to Study’ document for that purpose.

Finance

Money Advisers from our Student Services will be available to help with finance and funding enquiries. Further information about tuition fees for your course and funding support available is available on the Student Finance webpages. To find out more click the link below:

Finance and additional costs