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A

• Absence
• Academic Support for Disabled Students
• Access Centre
• Access to Learning Fund (ALF)
• Accessible Parking
• Accident 
• Accommodation on Medical Grounds
• Adult Dependents Grant
• Alcohol
• Assessment of Need
• Assistive Technologies

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B

• Bank Accounts (International Students)
• Batch Scheme
• Benefits
• Blind Students
• Blue Badge (Disabled Parking) external link
• Budgeting; see also under Money Management
• Bursary(ies)

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C

• Campus Support Services
• Career Development Loans (CDLs)
• Carers
• Changing Course
• Charities and Trusts
• Childcare Grant
• Child Tax Credit
• Christmas vacation information
• Complaints - University
• Composite Living Cost (ALF)
• Computing facilities for Disabled Students
• Confidentiality Policy
• Council Tax
• Counselling
• Counselling - Groups and Workshops

• Crisis Intervention Policy - Mental Health

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D

• Definition of disability
• Deaf Students
• Debt Advice
• Dentist
• Department Disability Liaison Officers (DDLO)
• Departmental Disability Liaison Officers, Guidance for - Staff only
• Dependants of International Students
• Dependants - extra financial help
• Depression
• Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) (external link)
• Disability funding information
• Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
• Doctor - registering
• Drugs
• Dyslexia

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E

• Emergency
• Employment
• English Classes for Dependants of International Students and Staff (ECDIS)
• Entry Clearance
• Entry Clearance Correction Scheme (ECCS)
• Equality Act
• Equipment Loan
• Europe - travelling to
• European Students - Funding
• Exam Anxiety
• Exam Arrangements for Disabled Students/for religious observance
• Extending your Visa

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F

• Faith (University's Multi-Faith Chaplaincy Centre)
• Fees
• Fee Status Enquiries
• Fire Safety
• First Aid
• Funding / Financial Help

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G

• General Practitioner (GP)
• Graduate Funding / Loans
• Graduating

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H

• Harassment and Bullying (Equality and Diversity website)
• Health
• Hearing Impairment
• Hardship Fund (now called Access to Learning Fund)
• Hospitality Scheme - University of Essex
• HOST

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I

• Illness and Reporting Absence
• Individual Exam Arrangements
• Intermitting
• International Students' Handbook
• International Students' News
• International Women's Society
• Invitation Letters

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J

• Job Vacancies (including Student Support Workers)
• JobsOnline (University's JobsOnline web site)
• Jury service

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L

• Learning Resource Centre (LRC)
• Learning Support
• Leave to Remain
• Leaving University
• LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) students
• Listen Again
• Loan
• Location of Student Support

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M

• Mature students
• Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR)
• Meningitis
• Mental Health Difficulties
• Mental Health Crisis Intervention Policy
• Mobility Impairment
• Money - International Students
• Money Management
• Multi-faith Chaplaincy Centre

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N

• Needs Assessment
• Newsletters for International Students
• NHS - Walk in Centre
• Nightline
• Non Medical Helpers
• Notetaker

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O

• Opening a Bank Account - International Students
• Opening Hours and Location
• Oystercard - Transport for London

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P

• Panic attacks
• Parking for people with a mobility impairment
• Parents' Learning Allowance
• Partners - of international students
• Part-time Student Funding
• Paying for NHS Treatment and Prescriptions
• Peer Mentoring
• Personal Safety
• Police Community Support Officer (PCSO)
• Police Registration - International Students
• Policies - Student Support
• Postgraduate Funding
• Postgraduate
• Pregnancy 
• Protection - Policy for the Protection of Under-18s and Vulnerable Adults

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R

• Reader
• Refugee Bursary
• Register with a Dentist
• Register with a Doctor
• Religion (University's Multi-Faith Chaplaincy web site)
• Religious observance and examinations
• Remaining in the UK (after your studies)
• Research Councils
• Residents' Support Network
• Road Safety

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S

• Safety
• Schengen Visa
• Scholarships
• Social Events - International Students
• Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)
• Sponsorship
• Spouse of International Student
• Staff Guidance (restricted access - staff only)
• Staying in the UK - International Students
• Student Loan
• Student Support Staff
• Student Support Workers including current vacancies
• Student Support Worker costs
• Student Union Advice Centre (Students' Union web site)
• Students with Caring Responsibilities
• Students with Children
• Study Abroad for Disabled Students
• Study Skills Workshops

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T

• Tax Credits
• Tax information for students (external link)
• Tier 1 (Post Study Work)
• Travel - Europe
• Travel - Oystercard (Transport for London)
• Trusts and Charities
• Tuition Fee Funding

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U

• Under 18 - Policy for the Protection of Under-18s and Vulnerable Adults
• Undergraduate Funding
• University of Essex Scholarships
• University Skills Centre (USC)
• Useful External Contacts

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V

• Vera Carmen Lord Fund
• Visas - Extending
• Visas - Entry Clearance
• Visiting Europe (Schengen Visa)
• Visitors - International Students
• Vulnerable Adults - Policy for the Protection of Under-18s and Vulnerable Adults
   

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W

• Walk-in-Centre -NHS
• Wellbeing Service
• Withdrawing
• Working after Studies - International Students
• Working whilst Studying - International Students
• Working Tax Credit
• Workshops

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