Anyone with DC with Durham as insurance

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What communications has your son or daughter had so far? Have they had any communications to fill in any forms from their allocated college accomodation or been told to submit certificates etc . DC keeps missing emails in spam so trying to get them to get organised as reading old threads, once results are out there seems to be various admin to do in terms of bank accounts, getting discount rail cards , scrabble for remaining accommodation etc. From what friends who are as clueless as me have said it all seems to vary so much from university to university or college to college at eg Oxford in terms of communication. Do they need to scan a D of E certificate for example? Thank you.

If you are worried call the unis. I always found them helpful.

There really isn't anything to do for insurance unis until they become firm. If your DS included his DofE certificate in his UCAS application his school may have already certified his qualifications including that. If not the uni may or not want sight of certificates. It would be very unlikely to want sight of a DofE certificate.

He should have a bank account and loan sorted by now anyway! Unis get results sent directly and really don't care about seeing your grade 8 oboe or DofE cert.

DS opened his student bank account a couple of weeks ago, he just screen shot something and sent it to the bank.

My ds swapped his current account to a student account on his phone app the other day so that takes zilch time in admin and you can do a student rail card online, it isn't specifically for students but for people aged between 16 - 25 so you don't have to prove where they are going to uni.

@worrybeadsneeded Ds has Durham as his firm. They are prolific communicators with emails all the time promoting their twitter, clubs and societies etc.

First things first would be accommodation before anything else. She needs to find the emails relating to that.

Depending which email your DD uses she can set a rule within that provider (gmail etc) that all Durham emails get put into a specific folder on her email. She can create one. She can also search for all emails from Durham in her search bar in her email to help her find them easily. Or search accommodation and see what that throws up.

I always thought student bank accounts had to have confirmation that you are indeed a university student, UCAS has details here

Some banks offer a railcard as a perk of a student bank account. However, you can apply for a 16-25 railcard online here or in person before she goes to university. It isn't specifically for students.

Student finance will need bank account details but she should have already applied for this already, they just need to know where to put the maintenance loan if she is having one.