Here you'll find quick links to key Confirmation and Clearing resources. Whether this is your first Clearing, or you're an experienced adviser, our Confirmation, Clearing, and Adjustment brochure (537.84 KB) and Confirmation and Clearing key dates (299.51 KB) are must-reads. It contains everything you need to know, including what's new for 2017.

Keep updated during Clearing

UCAS Correspondents will continue to receive our monthly email newsletter, but did you know colleagues can also sign up for a tailored version of our newsletter to get all the latest information and reminders?

To use Apply for advisers, you first need to become a UCAS registered centre. Then you’ll get adviser access to our online Apply service – here you can add references, check, approve, and submit your students’ applications. Subscribe to Adviser Track to keep up-to-date with your students’ applications, so you can give them appropriate advice.

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If you wish to become a UCAS registered centre, or are already a centre but new to advising applicants about the UCAS process, we have all the information you need to get started..

Sign up for our free adviser newsletter to get all the latest information, reminders, and events and training details straight to your inbox! Here you'll also find a wide range of guides and resources to support you, your students, and their parents.

• Adviser Guide 2017 (1.46 MB)
• Adviser Guide 2018 (4.2 MB)

These help you pass on vital information to students – with handy tools like classroom exercises and mythbusters.

If you've been asked to provide a reference for an applicant to higher education, we have information and advice to help you, specific to the scheme they are applying through.

The primary purpose of the UCAS Tariff is to support universities and colleges with management information and data returns.

Due to the wide range of qualifications students can study, some universities and colleges will continue to use the Tariff as a tool to set their entry requirements and make offers. These entry requirements are referred to as Tariff points, and take into consideration a wide range of qualifications.

Here you'll find useful resources to provide you with information about qualification reform, including videos explaining the changes. You can also view statements from some higher education providers, explaining how they will accommodate qualification reform. Take a look at our qualification reform timeline, for details of subjects and qualifications which will be offered in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

We support international tutors, agents, and advisers, on top of processing applications to hundreds of universities and colleges in the UK. To help you manage your students' applications to UK universities, you can become a UCAS registered centre and use Apply for advisers, which enables you to link students to your centre.

UCAS Progress Search provides details of the post-16 courses and places to study in your area. It covers all options – academic courses, such as A levels, through to vocational courses such as BTECs, and work-based training like apprenticeships. If your students are registered with us, they can apply online and you can receive applications for your courses.

They could take a gap year, do an apprenticeship, traineeship, study overseas, work or volunteer.

We’ve expanded our content to provide information and advice, as part of our commitment to help students make informed choices about their post-16 and post-18 opportunities.

These are designed for both new and experienced advisers – and provide  everything needed to help you help your students.

They’re an excellent way to get in-depth information about the UK higher education application process, as well as the other post-18 options available to your students. From training sessions held at our headquarters in Cheltenham, in-situ, and online, to conferences and exhibitions hosted right across the UK, there really is something for everyone.

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Here you’ll find out how we support widening participation through our products and services by working in partnership with charities and other sector organisations to provide practical and inspiring information which includes:

• analysis and output of application data 
• advice and resources for under-represented groups and to support students’ individual needs
• reports designed to inform public debate
• the latest insights into application trends and behaviours
• our contextual data service