Documents

Check what your courses need

Course centres tell you what documents they need. Once you have chosen your course centres, their requirements are listed on the Documents screen of your Application.

Please carefully consider the list, and upload the documents required for your Application by the course centres you have chosen.

A document requested "if completed" does not mean that completing the qualification is a requirement for everyone: it only means that if you have already completed that qualification you need to provide a document for it.

It is your responsibility to:

• provide the appropriate documents
• upload them in the appropriate section
• label them appropriately e.g. Document Type
• make sure they are readable (see Check How Your Documents Look below)

The Clearing House do not check these documents as the requirements vary from person to person.

If you change your course choices you will need to check the Documents screen of your application again.

• Please see the Courses section for the required for each centre

Check how your documents look

See your document the way the course centres will see it: download your Application pdf from the Overview or Review screens.

Please provide good quality documents to make it easier for course centres to assess your Application. Things to avoid are:

• Photos taken in poor light or at odd angles
• Screenshots of e.g. emails with extremely small or extremely large text
• If part of your document is blacked out try putting the file through Print to PDF and uploading the new version

If a document is missing, mis-loaded, mis-labelled, or unreadable in the Download Application pdf, you risk your application being excluded by the course that requires that document.

What is an academic transcript?

Some course centres ask for an academic transcript for your university qualifications.

UK Universities give this document different names, e.g.

• Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR), or
• Diploma Supplement, or
• Transcript, etc.

All academic transcripts should include the following:

• List the modules you took and the marks you got
• Confirm you completed the qualification, with an overall result e.g. 2:1, pass with merit, percentage mark, etc
• Qualification title e.g. BSc in Psychology with Sociology
• Identify who took the course e.g. your name, date of birth, etc
• Identify the university where you studied e.g. University name and logo, authorising stamp and signature, etc

The transcript should:

• Be issued by a member of staff at your university (in other words it should not be a printout you create yourself from your student account)
• Cover all the years of your course
• Be the final document issued after all your results have been verified (not a document issued part-way through your study, unless your chosen course centres specifically request this)

If your university cannot provide you with a transcript you need a letter from them confirming this. This will usually come from the Central Student Records Department of your university. We suggest that you contact your university as soon as possible to give them time to check their records.

Documents in other languages

You may need to provide a document in a language other than English e.g. a certificate or an academic transcript for an international qualification.

Please provide the document in the original language and an official translation of that document into English.