Application guidance notes

Before completing the form, please read these guidance notes carefully. You should also check the course finder for details about the programme you are applying for to ensure that you are familiar with the subject area and entry requirements.

Section 1: Personal details

Surname/family name and first name(s): please enter your full name as it appears in your passport or other official documentation.

Previous surname: if you have changed your name by marriage or otherwise, state your previous surname/family name.

Correspondence address: enter the address to which you expect all correspondence to be sent.

Section 2: Details of course(s) to which you wish to apply

If you wish to indicate an order of preference for your course, you may do so. If you do not indicate any order of preference, we will assume that you wish to be considered for all courses listed on the form at the same time.

Section 3: Fee status

If you live in the UK state your area of permanent residence. If you live outside of the UK, state the country (e.g. Italy) where you are living as your area of permanent residence. Please give details of who you expect to pay your fees for the duration of your programme. Please give details of any sponsorships or scholarships for which you have applied.

If you require a visa to study in the UK, you must provide passport information to enable us to support your visa application (NB for security reasons this information must be provided in non-electronic form).

Section 4: Disabilities and special needs

Please enter in the box the code from the list of statements below which is most appropriate to you. Please record any special needs or support required in the space provided.The university will use this information to make appropriate arrangements to support your studies at the university.

Disabilities/support required:

a) No disability
b) You have a social/communication impairment such as Asperger’s syndrome/other autistic spectrum  disorder
c) You are blind or have a serious visual impairment uncorrected by glasses
d) You are deaf or have a serious hearing impairment
e) You have a long standing illness or health condition such as cancer, HIV, diabetes, chronic heart  disease, or epilepsy
f) You have a mental health condition, such as depression, schizophrenia or anxiety disorder
g) You have a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia, dyspraxia or AD(H)D
h) You have physical impairment or mobility issues, such as difficulty using your arms or using a  wheelchair or crutches
i) You have a disability, impairment or medical condition that is not listed above
j) You have two or more impairments and/or disabling medical conditions

Section 5: Current education establishment attended

Section 6: English language

We will request certified copies of certificates and transcripts awarded.

Section 7: Personal statement

Enter any further information you may wish to offer in support of your application.

Section 8: Disclosure of criminal convictions

To help reduce the risk of harm or injury to students and/or staff caused by the criminal behaviour of other students, you must inform us about any relevant criminal convictions that you may have.

If you enter X in the box you will not be automatically excluded from the application process. However, we may want to consider the application further or ask for more information before making a decision.

Relevant criminal convictions are only those convictions for offences against the person, whether of a violent or sexual nature, and convictions for offences involving unlawfully supplying controlled drugs or substances where the conviction concerns commercial drug dealing or trafficking. Convictions that are spent (as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974) are not considered to be relevant and you should not reveal them unless you are applying for courses in teaching, health, social work and courses involving work with children or vulnerable adults.

Courses in teaching, health, social work and courses involving work with children or vulnerable adults

For these courses, you must enter X in the box if any of the following statements apply to you:

a) I have a criminal conviction
b) I have a spent criminal conviction
c) I have a caution (including a verbal caution)
d) I have a bind-over order
e) I am serving a prison sentence for a criminal conviction.

All other courses

For these courses, you must enter X in the box if either of the following statements apply to you:

a) I have a relevant criminal conviction that is not spent
b) I am serving a prison sentence for a relevant criminal conviction.

Convictions that are spent (as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974) are not considered to be relevant and you should not reveal them

If you are convicted of a relevant criminal offence after you have applied, you must tell us. Do not send details of the offence; simply tell us that you have a relevant criminal conviction. We may then ask you for more details.

Section 9: Declaration

When you sign the form, you agree to follow these conditions:

a) The information you have given is complete and accurate.
b) The university tries to process applications and related decisions efficiently and accurately.  However, we will not be liable for any mistakes or delays or any loss or damage caused by  mistakes or delays.
c) If you accept an offer of a place you agree to abide by the rules and regulations of the  university.
d) If you become a student, the university undertakes to take all reasonable steps to provide  educational services in the manner set out in the prospectus. If industrial action or  circumstances beyond the control of the university affect the ability to provide these  services, the university undertakes to do all it can to keep the disruption to your education  as small as possible.
e) The university does not undertake any absolute obligation whatsoever to provide  educational services in the manner specified in the prospectus or in any other document, nor  does it undertake any other obligation in respect of the provision of educational services  which is more onerous that the obligations set out herein.
f) Your application is a contract between you and the university. No one else can enforce any  part of this contract under the terms of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or  any other legislation.
g) If you become a student of the university, this notice shall be a term of any contract  between you and the university. Any offer of a place made to you by the university is made  on the basis that in accepting such an offer you signify your consent to the incorporation of  this notice as a term of any such contract.

The university will use the information on your application form to create a student record and process data about you in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The university will provide data about you to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

For assistance email studyabroadoffice@brighton.ac.uk or call +44 1273 643440

The Data Protection Act 1998 and Disclosure of Applicant Information

The information, which you have given on your application, will be used for the following purposes only:

a) To enable your application for entry to be considered
b) To enable this institution to compile statistics, or to assist other
c) To enable the institution to initiate your student record.
d) The university reserves the right at any stage to request applicants or enrolling students to provide  further information relating to any aspect of their application or enrolment. If such further information  is not provided within the period stipulated then the university reserves the right to refuse to consider  the application or the enrolment or to rescind home fee status and demand payment of any fees’  monies owing.

The university’s registration with the Data Protection Registrar includes an additional purpose for the detection of fraudulent applications for entry into Higher Education. Under this registration the university may, to facilitate the prevention and investigation of fraudulent applications, disclose information received from applicants, in appropriate circumstances, to the Department for Education and Skills, the Home Office, the Department for Social Security and the DSS Benefit Agency, the Local Authority Education Department, police forces, examining bodies, education or training establishments, the Student Loans Company, the Audit Commission, Inland Revenue, Prosecuting Authorities.