Please ensure that the total size of all of your attachments when combined does not exceeed 10MB.
These courses are postgraduate level therefore all students who do not have a first degree will need to demonstrate that they can produce work to MA standards, either through results in previous professional training or through equivalent training or experience
Please note:
- There is a £125 application fee payable online when you apply. If you are not invited for an interview, this fee will be refunded.
- We aren't able to support Tier 4 applications. You must already have the right to study in the UK when you apply.
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Academic Qualifications
Please submit your certificates here.
Please attach a scanned copy of your undergraduate degree certificate or equivalent.
- If you have any other significant, long term qualifications directly related to Counselling and Psychotherapy please include scanned copies of these too.
- If you have difficulties with scanning your certificates, please let us know.
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Relevant previous professional training
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Please attach the certificates
eg BACP accredited, UKCP registered or equivalent
Note although we will accept non-registered applicants on the course, in order to receive their certificate, students need to be registered with BACP, UKCP or an equivalent approved by the Head of Course by the time they submit their final piece of assessed work for the course.
Please provide a brief statement of your interest in the course and how you would use it
CV
This should be relevant to your application to the Minster Centre and should include a
summary of your education and work experience, please start with the most recent and work backwards.
Personal biography
Please submit your Personal Biography here.
Length: 1000 - 1500 words, typed.
This is an important document that we will use to look for evidence of your capacity to reflect honestly, maturely and openly, on your background and life experience and its impact on you. Please write your biography in a way which shows this.
This biography is particularly important because taking further training is likely to lead to you reflecting again on issues from your own life. It is therefore important to show you have developed high levels of self awareness and we want to assure ourselves that you are ready to undertake such training.
The following topics are likely to be relevant although there may be other areas that are important and you want to include:
- Family of origin including parents, siblings and/or any significant others
- Influences on the family such as cultural, religious or other belief, ethnic, educational, class and history.
- Main events and relationships in childhood and adolescence
- Current living situation and important relationships, including children
- Significant illnesses, accidents or other conditions or crises at any time
- Significant losses or separations
- Significant cares and concerns
- Why would you like to undertake further training at this point.
Passport Photo
Please provide a passport photo of yourself. This can be taken with your phone.
Note that this course is designed for students who have acquired enough clinical experience that will allow them to reflect in depth on theory and practice.
Academic and Personal References
Please supply two references – academic and personal.
Please note that both of the references should be either on headed paper or printed from the referee’s email account.
Please scan your references and submit them below.
If your referees would like to send their references directly to us, they can send them directly to our Admissions team on [email protected]. Please make sure they put your full name and the Course you are applying for.
Academic / Professional reference
Your academic referee should be from your current/most recent employer or educational establishment
Personal reference
Your personal referee could be a friend, old colleague, etc who has known you for at least 2 years.
Therapist Approval
If you are engaged with a therapist, please complete the below Therapist Approval Form. It will open in a new browser window; return to this window to complete your application.
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Guidance for students with disabilities and provide a brief description of any support needs you will have for the interview and to study with us. You may be contacted by our Disability Co-ordinator
Please note that there is no discrimination intended in these questions and that it is crucial that you answer these questions fully. Information provided will be held in confidence. If you are accepted onto the course, it will be accessible to key training staff during your training. If you are not accepted onto the course, this application will be destroyed.
All Minster Centre courses involve a high degree of experiential learning and require a degree of psychological robustness and capacity for self-reflection. The Centre reserves the right to refuse admission to applicants who we judge would not, at this time, be able to benefit from our training or for whom it might be too disturbing
There is a £135 non-refundable interview fee.
Student/applicant diversity monitoring information
We are collecting information to allow us to monitor recruitment, attendance and progression on our courses by different groups of people so that we can consider diversity issues in a more informed way. This data will also be used to supply data to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), please note that individual data is supplied to HESA. This is a requirement because we have courses approved for postgraduate loans. For further information about HESA and your data please see the end of this form.
Please respond to the following questions. Your answers will be securely stored on your student/applicant record.
The categories offered correspond to the categories used by HESA – this will help us make the necessary returns when the time comes and will also allow us to benchmark the Minster Centre against the wider higher education sector.
Please note: there is a prefer not to say option for some questions so that you do not have to disclose information if you choose not to.
Please tick those categories that apply to you. You can select more than one option
Please select only one option
HESA
HESA is the designated data body responsible for collecting and disseminating information about higher education in the UK. Every year we will send some of the information we hold about you to HESA.
Your HESA information will not be used to make automated decisions about you.
Data submitted by us to HESA includes details about the course you are studying and any qualifications awarded to you during the academic year. It also includes personal details about you such as your name and date of birth, your prior qualifications, and where you lived before starting your course. We will also be required to provide information about your disability status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or religion which is classed as ‘Sensitive personal data’ under the DPA, and ‘Special categories of data’ under the GDPR. This information is necessary for monitoring equality of opportunity and eliminating unlawful discrimination in accordance with the Equality Act 2010. Your sensitive information will be used for research purposes and will not be used to make decisions about you.
Some other information is used by HESA to enable research into the provision of fair access to higher education, for example information as to whether you are a care leaver or details of any financial support you may receive from us.
All uses of HESA information must comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and from 25 May 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
HESA may process information with third parties. It may charge other organisations to whom it provides services and data. Uses of your information may include linking parts of it to other information. Information provided to HESA is retained indefinitely for statistical research purposes.
For more information about data collection and data protection please see the HESA Student Collection Notice: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/about/regulation/data-protection/notices
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