Master on Local Development for the Balkans

Personal Reference Form

Edition 2010/2012

The applicant should provide a reference form to an academic instructor with whom you have studied and/or to a professional referee with whom you have worked. Each reference form must be completed and signed by the referee and submitted in an official envelope (i.e., from the referee’s univesity or company) which has been sealed and signed on the flap by the referee. These must be returned to you signed and sealed to be mailed in your application package. References are confidential and the envelopes must not be opened.

Alternatively, your referee can return the Personal Reference Form directly to Prof. JP Grundling as indicated below.

to the applicant

Please make sure that you complete this section ‘TO THE APPLICANT’ yourself. Deliver this form to the person you wish to act as a referee for your application and ask her/him to complete it in English. Please note:

1. This reference letter must be sent to the Master’s organisation in a sealed envelope;
2. The envelope must be signed on the back by the referee.

Family name:...... First name: ......

Citizenship:......

to the REFEREE

The person whose name appears above is applying for the Joint African Master in Comparative Local Development.As part of the application process, we require each applicant to provide us with two reference letters. It would greatly assist our assessment if you could answer the questions below.

You may prefer to write your observations on a separate, type-written sheet. Please attach that sheet to this form. Thank you.

aSSESSMENT

1. How long have you known the applicant and in what connection?

1. What do you consider to be the applicant’s major strengths?

1. In what ways does the applicant need to develop most?

1. In which sense and in what fields do you think the applicant will benefit from attending the Master?

1. How would you rate the applicant’s potential in:

Name of the person completing this form: ......

Position/title: ......

Institution/Organisation: ......

Address: ......

Tel...... Fax: ......

E-mail: ......

Signature: ......

Date: ......

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