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href="/study/fees-and-funding/postgraduate-doctoral/grants-scholarships/international-scholarship-collaborations/asean-uk-sage/">ASEAN – UK SAGE: Women in STEM Scholarships</a></li> <li><a href="/study/fees-and-funding/postgraduate-doctoral/grants-scholarships/international-scholarship-collaborations/colfuturo-loan-scholarships/">COLFUTURO & Imperial College London Joint Graduate Loan-Scholarship</a></li> <li><a href="/study/fees-and-funding/postgraduate-doctoral/grants-scholarships/international-scholarship-collaborations/daad-scholarships/">DAAD Scholarships</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/study/fees-and-funding/other-funding-sources/external-scholarships/">External scholarships</a></li> <li><a href="/study/fees-and-funding/other-funding-sources/charities-trusts/">Charitable grants and trusts</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/study/fees-and-funding/postgraduate-doctoral/loans/">Loans</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a 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reference guidance</a></li> </ul> </div> <h1>Teacher reference guidance</h1> </div> <div class="row row--space-between flow-opposite top" id=""> <aside class="col lg-3 md-4 sm-12"> </aside> <div class="col lg-8 sm-12" role="main" id="primary-content">  <div class="module flow-m"> <div class="row wysiwyg"> <p>This guidance is designed to support you in writing an academic reference for students who are applying to Imperial. </p> <p>We use the reference as part of our holistic selection process to help us identify applicants with the potential to succeed here.</p> <p>Your reference is an important part of this process. It helps our Admissions tutors to better understand whether there is a really good match between your student and the course(s) they have applied for.</p> <p>It also helps them to make a better assessment of your student within the context of the overall applicant pool by learning more about their learning environment, as well as any personal achievements or mitigating factors.</p> <p>As well as the general guidance from UCAS on what to include in your reference, we’ve provided more guidance below on information that our Admissions tutors would find particularly helpful in each section.</p> <h2>Section 1</h2> <div class="well minimal"> <p>Enter a general statement about your school, college/centre</p> </div> <p>If you are writing the reference for a student in a UK, state school, please tell us more about:</p> <ul> <li>The context of your school/college, or centre e.g. performance, intake demographics, progression rates to higher education etc. </li> <li>Your portfolio of qualification provision and any restrictions on options students may have.</li> <li>Information about your school, college or centre which may affect performance, such as significant staff changes, or damage to buildings.</li> <li>Any policies or processes used for predicting grades (e.g. internal assessments). This is an opportunity to articulate any policy about not predicting grades for qualifications where the school or college feels the assessment method or qualification structure is not suited to predictions.</li> <li>Factors which have affected the whole school/college (rather than the individual).</li> </ul> <p>For all other schools, please use this section to tell us more about:</p> <ul> <li>Your portfolio of qualification provision and any restrictions on options students may have.</li> <li>Any policies or processes used for predicting grades (e.g. internal assessments). This is an opportunity to articulate any policy about not predicting grades for qualifications where the school or college feels the assessment method or qualification structure is not suited to predictions.</li> </ul> <h2>Section 2</h2> <div class="well minimal"> <p>If applicable, enter any information about extenuating circumstances which may have impacted the applicant’s education and achievement.</p> </div> <p>This is an optional section. If relevant, please include information that contextualises your student’s educational journey. For example: </p> <ul> <li>Individual circumstances e.g. disability, serious illness, bereavement, significant adverse personal circumstances (with applicant consent).</li> <li>Context as to why there is a disparity between the grades they have achieved at GCSE level (or equivalent) and their predicted grades, where applicable at A-level (or equivalent).</li> <li>Factors which have limited the applicant’s choice of subjects or load of study at UK Level 3 or equivalent (factors which have affected the whole centre rather than just the applicant should be included in section 1).</li> <li>Support the university or college should consider putting in place to ensure the applicant can thrive on their course (with applicant’s consent) e.g. highlight the measures the school, college or centre put in place to ensure the student’s inclusion/experience.</li> </ul> <p>For applicants with a particularly difficult educational or personal background, which may require information over and above the 4,000 character limit for references, we are happy to accept additional information via email.</p> <p>To do this, please send the information to the relevant <a href="/study/apply/contact/">Admissions Team</a>. </p> <p>If you are providing additional information via email, please state this in section 2 of the reference.</p> <h2>Section 3</h2> <div class="well minimal"> <p>Outline any other supportive information specific to the applicant and relevant to the course(s) applied for that you think universities/colleges should be aware of.</p> </div> <p>This section is available for you to provide a supporting statement for your student and showcase any additional information about their successes and achievements.</p> <p>We will take this section into consideration when making admissions decisions.</p> <p>We encourage you to use whichever format best suits the information you wish to provide, for example prose or short, clear, factual statements in bullet point format.</p> <p>Examples of 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