International Baccalaureate Students.

This section explains how Tier 4 students receiving the results of their International

Baccalaureate on 4 July 2014 should make their application.

This section updates paragraph 118 and paragraph 234 of this guidance document.

The International Baccalaureate Organisation will not be producing paper documents showing the official confirmation of this year’s exam results until the end of August 2014. We have therefore put special arrangements in place for Tier 4 Students who will be receiving their International Baccalaureate results on 4 July 2014.

Where you have been offered a course place on the basis of your International Baccalaureate

award and you have not yet received your original award certificate, you should send us:

1. A print out from the UCAS or International Baccalaureate Office online checking

service confirming their result

The Tier 4 Sponsor offering the course must also confirm that they have checked your International Baccalaureate award online in the Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies.

Where you have been offered a course place on the basis of your International Baccalaureate award and you have received their award certificate they should include this with their application.

Students may apply using this concession from 4 July 2014 until 14 September 2014.

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3. Temporary arrangement for students starting a new course with an Higher Education Institution (HEI) that is already sponsoring them and that student has finished their last course

We have exceptionally agreed to implement a temporary arrangement for students starting a new course with an HEI that is already sponsoring that student, and that student has finished their course.

This temporary arrangement is further to paragraph 350 of this guidance and allows Tier 4 sponsors to enrol students on a new course immediately if:

• the sponsor is an HEI;

• the sponsor has HTS status;

• the student is currently sponsored by that HEI and has finished their last course;

• the student’s leave to stay has not yet expired;

• the student will be studying their new course with that HEI; and

• the new course begins on or before 1 November 2014.

The student must make their new application for leave to remain within six weeks of their enrolment on their course, or before their leave expires, whichever is soonest.

In all other circumstances a student must make an application for leave to remain and must not start their new course until we have approved their new application, unless they meet paragraph 350 of this guidance.

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