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PGCE and Delivery Partners

Important note to all applicants

Detailed below are instructions and further information regarding the next steps that you will need to complete prior to starting your course. Please note that failure to meet your offer conditions prior to the course starting could lead to you losing your place or the release of financial support being delayed.



Qualifications check

If you did not provide evidence of your qualifications at a face to face interview or they are listed as outstanding on the email which directed you to this page, you will need to upload copies of your GCSE certificates to your Applicant Portal, and also provide your original degree certificate along with a photocopy (photocopy for us to keep).

How to provide your original degree certificate

It is a Department for Education (DfE) requirement that we see your original degree certificate.

Lancaster, Carlisle and Delivery Partner applicants - you will receive an email from us in June asking you to post your original degree certificate to us by recorded delivery during July and August. Please contact us at pgadmissions@cumbria.ac.uk if you would rather bring your original degree certificate to campus in person. Please wait for us to contact you in June before posting your certificate - the email will contain the full postal address for your campus. All certificates will be returned in person during your first week on campus. 

London applicants - you will be able to provide your original degree certificate to campus during August - please take your original degree certificate to the campus anytime, Monday - Friday between 9am and 5pm. 

Please refer to the FAQ’s below for further information on how to provide certificates. 

If you are due to take a GCSE equivalency test in summer 2024

If your course has GCSE entry requirements and you are due to sit a GCSE or equivalency exam, please contact us as soon as you have your result and upload a copy of your certificate to your Applicant Portal.

Delivery Partner students only: if you have provided your qualifications at interview, we have requested that schools forward these to us. However if these remain listed as outstanding then you may wish to provide your qualifications directly to us again to ensure these are received as school offices are likely to be closed after mid July.

 



Qualifications FAQs



What will you accept as evidence of my GCSEs?

What will you accept as evidence of my degree?

What if I have lost my qualifications?

What if I am still studying?

I need to do a GCSE Equivalency Test

How can I provide documents?

What is the ‘Right to Work’ check?

Disclosure & barring service (DBS) check (formerly CRB)

Delivery Partner salaried applicants should contact the lead/employing school in order to complete this check.

Delivery Partner non-salaried and PGCE students please see our DBS information page for further information, and you will receive an email with further instructions on starting your DBS check.



Medical clearance

If your course requires medical clearance, guidance on how to complete this admission check can be found on our medical clearance information pages.



Finance information

Money Advisors 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.

PGCE applicants may be eligible for a Department for Education (DfE) bursary. Once you have provided evidence of your degree qualifications, Admissions will e-mail you if you are eligible for the bursary with confirmation of your bursary award and guidance on what you need to do to ensure that the bursary is paid. Emails will start to be sent from May onwards. You do not need to contact us to apply for the bursary.



Accommodation information

Further information about accommodation options in Lancaster, Carlisle and Ambleside is available on the accommodation webpages. A link to the accommodation application forms is sent automatically to applicants that accept the University of Cumbria as their firm choice.



Course welcome information

Delivery Partners: Early course welcome information for your course including term dates, provisional timetables, reading lists and any pre-course preparation will be provided by your alliance.

University-Based PGCE: Early course welcome information for your course including term dates, provisional timetables, reading lists and any pre-course preparation will be available later in the summer. We will send you an email to let you know when this is available.



International students

We are pleased you have accepted your place at the University of Cumbria. We would like to make your transition as smooth as possible by helping where we can.

If you are required to apply for a Student Route Visa, to progress further by obtaining your Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) you will need to ensure that all offer conditions have been met. Once these have been completed, your offer will be upgraded to unconditional. Within the following 24 hours, you will receive an email inviting you to log into CAS Shield. There you will need to answer the questionnaire and complete each section when prompted. Should you have any queries at this stage, please use the CAS Shield messaging service so that our compliance team can respond to you promptly.

Please note, we will only request you pay your deposit once you have passed your credibility interview (if applicable).

Once your CAS has been issued, you will receive this via email.

The original copies of all qualifications you have used to gain entry to the University of Cumbria programme must be seen at international registration. For any CAS or Visa queries, please email UKVICompliance@cumbria.ac.uk.

For any queries regarding your outstanding conditions or queries relating to your application, please email international.admissions@cumbria.ac.uk.  

If your course requires Medical and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance then please go to our DBS Information page for further information.



Placement information

Teacher training students will be contacted following registration to begin making arrangements for school placements.

Download Placement Information for students.



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