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STUDENT INFORMATION

• Helping students not eligible for the Disabled for staff with relationship problems.
Students Allowance in obtaining support from
other sources To access the Confidential Care’s services, phone
them on 0800 085 4764. You can also access the
• Help with arranging extra Library support Confidential Care website at www.well-online.co.uk
• Supporting applications for continuing
Key Contacts:
accommodation for your second or later years
Registry
Disabled Students Allowance: www.imperial.ac.uk/registry
www.imperial.ac.uk/disabilityadvisoryservice/
supportatimperial/funding

Students who are home for fees and who have a Admissions
disability can apply for a grant called the Disabled David Parrott
Students Allowance which can pay any extra costs Tel: 0207 594 8045
that are a direct result of disability. This fund is not d.parrott@imperial.ac.uk
means-tested and is also a grant not a loan so any
home student with a disability can apply and will not Graduate School
be expected to pay it back. Remember students with www.imperial.ac.uk/study/pg/graduate-school
unseen disabilities such as mental health difficulties, Tel: 0207 594 1383
dyslexic type difficulties or long term health problems graduate.school@imperial.ac.uk
are also eligible for this fund.
You are a student member of the Imperial Graduate
Counselling: School. It is the School that has overall quality
assurance responsibility for this degree. It provides
The college offers a wide array of support resources an optional, additional programme of School wide
for its staff, including counselling for individuals and talks and events for students.
couples counselling:
www.imperial.ac.uk/occhealth/services/eap Student Counsellors
www.imperial.ac.uk/counselling
All College staff and members of their family living Tel: 0207 594 9637
with them can get free, confidential professional,
help from Confidential Care, the College’s Employee Other Learning Support:
Assistance Provider, 24 hours per day, by telephone
or via the web. College Tutors
www.imperial.ac.uk/students/student-support/
Confidential Care’s help line and web pages can college-tutors-and-departmental-support
provide information and advice on a wide range
of work/life issues including financial and legal Student Health Services
problems, consumer and citizen rights, and finding www.imperial.ac.uk/students/student-support
child and elderly care. Tel: 0207 594 9396

You can also speak or arrange to meet with a qualified The Postgraduate Prospectus
counsellor to talk through personal problems in www.imperial.ac.uk/study/pg
complete confidence. Couples counselling is available

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