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Helping form a more complete picture of an applicant’s individual characteristics.

From flagship events to smaller, locally focused exhibitions, we visit more than 40 towns and cities across the UK, offering hundreds of universities, employers, and commercial brands the opportunity to connect face-to-face with thousands of enthusiastic students, parents, and teachers actively seeking future options.

Information for exhibitors attending the UCAS/Discovery Ayrshire Exhibition

Information for exhibitors attending the UCAS/Discovery Lanarkshire Exhibition

Your future starts here. Explore a world of exciting possibilities after school and college.

We offer national, regional and sector/audience specific events right across the student decision-making cycle. It's your opportunity to grab their attention in 2023.

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The use of contextual information and data in admissions can be an effective tool in identifying applicants with the greatest potential to succeed in higher education. We asked four higher education providers how contextualised admissions works in practice.

Universities and colleges can use contextual information and data to identify applicants who deserve additional consideration in the admissions process. In this series of articles, we aim to dispel the myths around contextualised admissions, and encourage more students to make aspirational applications to higher education.

The use of contextual information and data in university and college admissions is now widespread. But the way it’s used, and the benefits to applicants, vary enormously.

LGBT+ students beginning university or college increasingly see higher education as an opportunity to be more open about their sexuality or gender, a new study finds, but more than 1 in 10 say they are unsure about how ‘out’ they can be when they start as freshers this autumn.

Figures published by UCAS today reveal that 41.8 per cent of 18 year olds from London entered higher education in 2017, an increase of 4.7 per cent from 2016. (‘Young Londoners’, in the context of this press release, is used to mean 18 year olds from London.)

Today, UCAS publishes its 2016 data for individual universities. These make up the final part of the UCAS End of Cycle data on admissions to full-time undergraduate higher education in the UK in 2016.

More students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds have secured university and college undergraduate places than ever before this year, amid growing demand for courses.

As of midnight, 416,310 applicants have been accepted into higher education through UCAS.