MSc Social Work at Stirling 2020 anyone?

Anyone planning on doing the MSc Social Work Postgraduate Diploma at Stirling in 2020? Just wondered how you got on with your stage two task and if you think you will get a bursary. I got a mediocre 15/20

Anyone heard from university about nominations? I got an email today 😁

Yes, and thankfully it was a welcoming email to say I have been nominated for the SSSC bursary.

I scored 15/20 for their task, so I was completely unsure whether it would have been enough, but I made it in the end.

How did you do?

Hey, glad you got good news. I got nominated too so that's great. Just trying to work out what documents need to send to SSSC for the manual endorsement from my employer.

Thank you.

Congratulations on your offer.

I’ve sent mine away yesterday. It has to be printed out and filled in manually rather than electronically. The university can endorse this. Documents needed are simply photographic ID and proof of address.

Thanks for the info. I work in childcare so the way I read into that my current employer would need to endorse it. For proof documents do these need signed by the endorser ??

Cool.

I’m not completely sure about the endorsement process. In my case, I basically went on to the SSSC website, printed the social work student application out and took it to the university. Are you going to Stirling? A girl called Jessica Caie, who administrates the course, signed all my paperwork. She also photocopied and signed my photographic ID and proof of address, and from here I enveloped it all and sent it to the SSSC head office.

I’ve not had to get anyone else to sign anything, such as employers or anything. Please note that I also had to pop in a PVG update along with all of this, which was the only thing Jessica was unable to countersign - the SSSC countersign and pay for this anyway.

Assuming as you work with children you’ll already be a PVG member, so when you send your SSSC application away once you’ve printed this, along with your signed photocopies, pop a PVG update in your envelope. Your work should be able to give you this.

With regards to whether they are the ones who will endorse the application, perhaps it’s best to speak to them. Everything seemed fine with mine being signed at the university.

I had specifically contacted SSSC about this due to the section on the application titled ‘Employment’, which then gave a drop down menu for “student”. According to them, we should insert this rather than your employer as it is a “student” application we are making. The issue with this, however, was the course start date. As the course starts on 13/01/2020, it didn’t let me proceed with the form. The advice she gave me was to simply insert the present date when doing the form, then once it was printed, to then score it out and write in the official course start date with a pen.

This ‘override’ seemed to work. Again, I’m not sure in your circumstances about your employer endorsing it. It’s a student application though, so I would have thought this would have to be done by the university?

Thanks for the information. I called SSSC and because I work for the council and I am already on the SSSC registration on a different part the person thought it should be fine for employer to endorse. If there any issues at least I know I can fire to the university to get it signed.

Oh, I see. Cool.

Well good luck with it all anyway, and again congrats with your bursary nomination!

Thanks!! Hopefully see you at university 😁