SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SCHOOL

OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY
Tel: +44(0)1865 285120 Fax: +44(0)1865 275885
www.ouce.ox.ac.uk/graduate

Director of Graduates (Research): Professor Danny Dorling

Research Degrees Coordinator: Ruth Saxton
[email protected]

Certificate of Offer
DETAILS OF YOUR OFFER
Applicant name: Mr Matías Pérez Volonterio
Applicant number: 1299199
Course: Doctor of Philosophy in Geography and the Environment (Full-time)
Department / Faculty: School of Geography and the Environment
Course start date: 01 October 2020
College: Your application will now be considered for a college place. You are
guaranteed a college and will hear from the college that accepts you in the
coming weeks.
Supervisor(s): Ms Amber Marie Murrey

Academic conditions:
1. Original/Certified copy: masters transcript
2. Original/Certified copy: bachelors transcript
3. English language test score at higher level
The deadline to meet these conditions is 31 August 2020.
Financial conditions:
This offer is subject to completion of a Financial Declaration, details of which will be confirmed by your
college. In the meantime, please read the information on the Financial Declaration below so that you
know what you will be required to provide.
Non-academic conditions:
 You will be required to complete a criminal convictions declaration. You will receive an email with
further instructions.
 Ensure that any information submitted with, or in relation to, your application (whether to the
University or your college) is true, genuine, accurate and complete.

FEES AND FUNDING

Fees: Details of fees can be found in the Course Information Sheet. See the link under
“Contractual Documentation” below.
Fee status: To be confirmed.
Funding: The University's scholarship competitions consider eligible applicants who have
received an offer as part of the November and January application deadlines for
their course. Normally funding offers are made between late February and June.
Please see our online information on funding options at
www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/funding.

CONTRACTUAL DOCUMENTATION

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SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SCHOOL
OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY
Tel: +44(0)1865 285120 Fax: +44(0)1865 275885
www.ouce.ox.ac.uk/graduate

Director of Graduates (Research): Professor Danny Dorling

Research Degrees Coordinator: Ruth Saxton
[email protected]

Certificate of Offer
This Certificate constitutes your formal offer of a place at the University of Oxford and when you accept it
you will enter into a contract with the University. The offer should be read together with the following
documents which are all available at www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/youroffer.
1. University Terms and Conditions
2. Course Information Sheet
3. Student Handbook

YOUR DECISION
To accept or decline this offer, please contact us by 17 April 2020 using the details below*.
This offer may be withdrawn if we have not heard from you by this date.

Professor Danny Dorling

Director of Graduate Studies (Research)

YOUR KEY COURSE CONTACT

Name: Ruth Saxton
Email: [email protected] Phone: +44
(0)1865 +44 01865 275890
Website: https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/

Date: 23 March 2020

* Right to Cancel: [Note: This is a notice that the University is obliged to include in offer letters by law. However, please note that we anticipate
that this will affect only students who are required to pay a fee deposit as part of accepting their offer; if you are not required to pay a deposit,
this is unlikely to affect you as the University accepts withdrawals at any point before the start date of your course]. You are entitled to cancel
your acceptance of a place at the University for any reason within a period of fourteen days beginning on the day after the day on which we
receive notification of your acceptance of this offer. You can do so by sending a notice in writing stating that you wish to cancel your acceptance
of the offer a place. The notice should be sent by email to the contact given. By cancelling your acceptance of the offer, you will be withdrawing
from both the University and the college, if you have already been offered a college place.

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WHERE YOU ARE IN THE PROCESS

2a. Your college place 3. Completion of

1. Offer of a place on Conditions and
a course 2b. Consideration for University Card
funding (if relevant) Form

ABOUT YOUR OFFER

Now that you have received your offer of a place on a course, the next stages of the process are an offer
of a college place and consideration for scholarship funding, provided your application has been made
an offer as part of the November or January deadlines.
Your college
You are guaranteed a college place and the college that accepts you will be in touch with you directly.
You can expect this within 8-10 weeks. In a few cases, this may take longer; please be assured that this
is not a cause for concern. Please note that:
 If you indicated a preference, this college will now consider your application, but your place may
not necessarily be at that college.
 If you are successful in obtaining a college-linked scholarship, we may need to move your
application to a different college so as to maximise the funding available overall.
Once a college makes you an offer, there are only two grounds on which a change of college during the
application process is possible: (i) the University moves you to another college as part of the process for
securing funding; (ii) another college is better able to support any disability, long-term health conditions,
or specific learning difficulties which have been declared. A change of college on disability grounds will
only be possible in exceptional cases and you will be required to provide supporting medical evidence
about your disability and its impact. Normally this kind of change extends only to those with a severe
disability that requires substantial adjustments to living accommodation, a significant sensory impairment
or those who have personal daily care needs.
If you choose to turn down your college place (or exercise any cancellation right that the college gives
you), please be aware that this will mean you are also turning down the University place on this
Certificate of Offer. This is because the two offers are linked; you must be a member of a college in order
to join the University.
You can find more information on Oxford colleges at www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/introducingcolleges.
If you have any queries, please contact the Graduate Admissions Office by completing an email query at
www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ask or by telephoning +44 (0)1865 270059.
Your supervisor (if relevant)
Please note that it is possible for a student’s allocated supervisor(s) to change, either during the period
of study or prior to enrolment. This may occur for a variety of reasons. In the event of a change, your
department will be responsible for ensuring that a new supervisor (either temporary or permanent) is
appointed as soon as possible and for keeping you fully informed. If your supervisor is listed as “to be
confirmed”, this will be confirmed as soon as possible.
Conditions
You must meet all of the conditions in your Certificate of Offer in order to take up your place at the
University. The consequences of failing to meet a condition of your offer are set out in the Terms and
Conditions.
1) Academic conditions
If your offer has academic conditions, you will need to send the relevant official documentation to us
to evidence that you have met your conditions by the date stated in your Certificate of Offer. It will not

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normally be possible for an offer-holder to take up a place if any conditions are outstanding after this
date. If you anticipate any difficulties with this deadline, please contact us as soon as possible.
2) Financial conditions
Financial declaration: Your college will ask you to complete a Financial Declaration form. When
making your Financial Declaration, you will need to:
1. show that you have sufficient funding to cover the course fees for Year 1 of your course by
providing financial evidence;
2. give your assurance that you are able and willing to meet all your course fees beyond Year 1, if
the duration of your course is longer than one year (no financial evidence of this is required); and
3. give your assurance that you are able and willing to meet your living costs for the duration of your
course (no financial evidence of this is required).
You can find out more about the Financial Declaration at www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/financialdeclaration.
3) Non-academic conditions
As a condition of your offer you are asked to declare any unspent relevant criminal convictions. You
will be able to do this in Graduate Applicant Self Service and will receive further instructions by email.
The University policy at www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/criminalconvictions explains how declared criminal
convictions will be dealt with and what constitutes a relevant conviction.
It is also a condition of your offer that any information submitted with or in relation to your application
(whether to the University or your college) is true, genuine, accurate and complete (i.e. does not omit
information you have been asked to provide).
Fees and fee status
Your personal fee status (if not already confirmed in your Certificate of Offer), course fee liability, and
likely living costs will be confirmed through the Financial Declaration form.
In the meantime, information on course fees and other living costs, including any continuation charges
that will apply, can be found in the Course Information Sheet available at
www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/courseinfosheet.
You can find information on how fee status (Home/EU, Islands or Overseas) is determined at
www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/feestatus.
Funding
The majority of Oxford scholarship competitions take place between late February and June. After this
date, it is much less likely that we will be able to offer funding. If you have applied to any specific
schemes, you can find details of the dates by which funding decisions will be made at
www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/scholarshipsatoz.
Due to the volume of applications, we are unable to contact unsuccessful applicants individually or
provide feedback so if you have not heard back from us by the dates indicated in the scholarship
information then please assume that you have been unsuccessful. The scholarship process is very
competitive and success is not guaranteed. We therefore advise you to explore all possible funding
sources. Further information can be found at www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/fees-and-funding.
Keeping your contact details up to date
If any of your contact details change, please let us know as soon as possible to ensure you don’t miss
any important information.
Queries
If you have any questions about this offer or would like to get in touch, please use the contact details
provided in your Certificate of Offer.

THINGS TO CONSIDER
Accommodation

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Accommodation is not guaranteed for graduate applicants, although in 2018-19 72% of full-time
graduate students in their first academic year received College or University graduate accommodation.
When you have received your college offer, your college will explain how to apply for any college
accommodation that they may have. The University’s Graduate Accommodation Office may also have
accommodation for which full-time graduates can apply. Further details are available at
www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/accommodation.
Part-time students do not need to meet the University’s residence requirements (see
www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/residence), and would normally only need to attend Oxford for short periods of
time. Your college may be able to provide occasional accommodation for these periods, or there are
further suggestions at www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/accommodation.
Disability, long term health conditions and specific learning difficulties
If you have (or think you might have) a disability, and did not declare it in your application, we strongly
encourage you to let the Disability Advisory Service (DAS) know as early as possible, so that they can
advise on the range of study support that is available. It can take time to arrange support so it is
important to start this process without delay. You can find further information on DAS as well as the DAS
registration form at www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/das.
Visa application
It is your responsibility to investigate whether you need a visa to study in the UK and to make any
application. Before doing so you should make sure you are eligible to apply and to meet the
requirements.
The majority of applicants requiring a visa to study in the UK apply for a Tier 4 Student Visa. You can
find out more at www.gov.uk/tier-4-general-visa/overview. You will also find further advice on the
University website and a detailed guide to applying for a Tier 4 visa at
www.ox.ac.uk/students/visa/before/tier4.
Pre-sessional course in academic English
If you are an international student and English is not your first language, you should consider the Oxford
University Language Centre’s Pre-sessional Course to help you perform at a high level in your studies.
You can find out more at www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/englishcourse.
Arriving in Oxford
There is a wealth of information available to help you plan for your arrival in Oxford at
www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/newstudent.
Deferral
It is not normally possible to defer your entry unless you are facing exceptional unforeseen
circumstances. You can find out more about deferrals at www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/defer.
Please note that if you wish to apply for a deferral and you consider that you meet the criteria, you will
only be able to do so once you have met all the conditions of your offer.
Complaints
The University’s graduate admissions complaints and appeals policy is available at
www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/complaints.

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CHECKLIST OF ACTIONS YOU SHOULD TAKE
☐ Read this letter carefully, including the contractual documentation related to your course:
1. University Terms and Conditions
2. Course Information Sheet
3. Student Handbook

☐ Decide whether to accept or decline this offer and let us know by the deadline stated in your
Certificate of Offer.

☐ Send documents to evidence that you meet the conditions of your offer. The date by which
these documents are due is included in your Certificate of Offer.

☐ Complete the question on criminal convictions (you will receive separate instructions by email).

☐ If you have a disability and haven’t already declared it, contact the Disability Advisory Service so
that we can consider support.

☐ Check whether you need a visa to study in the UK.

☐ Check your email regularly for important information and updates, including your college
place.

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