* Before you apply please read the notes below very carefully :
1. You need to have your email address at hand if you do not have one alredy, you need to open one for free at Gmail, Hotmail,Yahoo.
2. Print out hard copy of application from. Compete it so that you have all the information at hand before completing on-line.
3. Have all of your information (including your qualifications, names of referees and a personal statement) ready in word documents and paste/copy in online from, when you start to ensure you complete the application .
As soon as your application for admission is received by the Admissions Office at LCLM, it is keyed onto the student database and a decision is made as soon as possible.
Notes on completing your online application
We have provided some notes here to help you fill in our online application form. Please read through them carefully to familiarise yourself with the application process and ensure you have all the information needed to hand. These notes are repeated on the application form itself to guide you as you work on it. You will have the opportunity to save your application and return to it later whilst you are completing it.
1. Personal details
Notes for Personal details: You will be asked to provide most of the following details in the initial stages of this application and we will then put them in place for you as you proceed. If you need to correct or update the information given please save your application and log-in again, then select 'General Questions' from the menu at the top of the re-entry page. You will not be asked your 'Preferred name' until later in the application process.
Title: Enter the title you are known by, for example Mr/Ms/Miss/Mrs/Dr.
First/given name: Enter all your first/given names.
Surname: Enter your surname/family name.
Date of Birth: Enter your date of birth as day/month/year in numerals, for example 23/06/88.
Gender: Enter M for male or F for female.
2. Correspondence address
Address: Enter your full postal address using the Address, Town, County, Postcodeand Countrylines provided.
Telephone number: Enter the phone number that we are most likely to be able to reach you on. This can be your home number or your mobile number. If you do not have a phone number of your own, please enter a number where we can contact you, for example by leaving a message with family or friends asking you to contact us. Remember to include any national or international codes.
Email address: Enter your email address. You will need an email address to apply online. We cannot communicate with you effectively otherwise. If you do not have one already you may open a Hotmail, Gmailor Yahoo!account for free.
3. Programme applied for mode of study & start date.
Notes for Programme applied for: Please check that you have selected the programme you have selected the applied that details are correct. If not please begin a new application selecting the programme, mode of study and start date again. Please note that International Students can only apply for full-time programmes.
4. Sponsorship
Notes for Sponsorship: If you are being, or are likely to be, financially sponsored please give the name, full postal address, telephone number (including any international code) and email address of your sponsor
5. Education and qualifications
Notes for Education and qualifications:
Enter in chronological order (most recent first) details of educational institutions attended, giving full name of institution, date started, date left, programmes studied and mode of attendance
Then for each educational institution enter the examinations or assessments taken there for which results are known (including those failed), giving the subject studied, level of examination, date of result or award, the result/grade obtained, and mode of study (full-time or part-time). Please use the format given in following examples and begin each separate examination's details on a separate line as shown:
Examples:
History / Degree (BA Hons) / July 2005 / 2/1 / full-time
Chemistry / A2 / August 2004 / B / full-time
International students Please note that if your qualification is in your native language, you should have to translated to English and enclosed by the British council they are applying for, by consulting,
6. Employment
Notes for Employment: Enter in chronological order (most recent first) details of employment giving Name of employer,Nature of your joband the dates started and dates left, in the Fromand Toentries. If you have no employment experience enter 'not applicable'.
7. Personal Statement
Notes for Personal Statement: Use this space to provide information in support of your application including reasons for applying for the programme, reasons for wishing to study with us and any relevant practical experience, interests and achievements. This statement must be your own words.
For example:
You should say what specifically interests you about the programme you have chosen.
How does it link in with your previous career if a complete change of career, give resons.
Say why you want to study it and why you want to study at LCLM.
How does it fit into your future plans for employment or further study?
What knowledge of the subject do you have already? What have you read about it, do you have some practical experience of it, or have you studied some aspect of it?
What would you bring to the college if you were to become one of its students? Tell us about your interests, activities and achievements. Do you have work experience or voluntary activity to tell us about, that might be relevant, or that will give us a fuller picture of you as a person? Say something about your social, leisure and sporting activities too.
8.Special needs
Notes for Special Educational Needs Do you have any special needs that the college should be aware of? (medical, personal, religious, etc.) If you need regular medication (e.g. for epilepsy, diabetes), please write below the type and quantity of taken. This isconfidential, but would enable us provide you effective service.
9.Criminal conviction
Notes for Criminal conviction:
We need to know about criminal convictions in two situations:
In circumstances where that information may help us to reduce the risk of harm or injury to our students and staff:
A relevant criminal conviction in this context is one for offences against the person, whether of a violent or sexual nature, or for offences that concern 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 do not have to be revealed.
If you do have a relevant criminal conviction that is not spent you must answer yes to this question
Your application will still be considered if you answer yes, but we may ask for further information before making our decision.
If you are convicted of a relevant criminal offence after you have made your application, you must tell us and we may then ask you for further details.
Where it is a consideration because of the nature of the programme of study chosen.
Programmes involving work with children or vulnerable adults, or in teaching, health, social work or veterinary subjects are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This means that any criminal convictions including sentences and cautions (including verbal cautions), reprimands, final warnings and bind-over orders, must be declared and are never spent for this purpose.
If you are applying for such a programme, we will require you to agree to a criminal record check. An 'enhanced disclosure document' from the Criminal Records Bureau or the Scottish Criminal Record Office Disclosure Service may also be necessary. This allows the information to be made available to the college if the criminal record check identifies that you have had a c
