If you have a DSA1 Form or Continuing DSA form that indicates you need your university to sign, please be advised that you can leave Section 5 Your university or college blank.
As studying with us is by distance learning, Student Finance allows our students to send in their DSA application form with this section blank. Student Finance will contact us to complete Section 5 on your behalf, as they do need to ask us for more information than this form does, so long as you have given consent in Section 6 b.
For reference, you should list Open University as the university / college in Section 4a and Open College of the Arts as the franchise. Typically, OU receives these requests and forwards them to us for completion before sending the information back to DSA. If they are unable to contact either the OU or OCA for any reason, they will email you to inform you of this. If this occurs, please notify us, and we will provide OU with the necessary information to pass on to DSA.
If you have any other DSA forms which require a stamp and signature from OCA, please submit this via the helpdesk, or via learnersupport@oca.ac.uk, or if you need to submit this by post you can send this to OCA Learner Support Team, The Michael Young Arts Centre, Room 301, DMC 02, County Way, Barnsley, S70 2AG.