Disabled Students' Allowance: Wales
The Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) aims to ensure everyone has the support and adjustments they need to succeed during their studies. This information is relevant to students who normally live in Wales.
Information and advice pages
Disabled Students' Allowance: Wales
The Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) aims to ensure everyone has the support and adjustments they need to succeed during their studies. This information is relevant to students who normally live in Wales.
Disabled students: Financial support
Having a disability or mental health condition might mean incurring additional costs (e.g. access to specialist equipment) when accessing higher education. But don’t worry, there is financial support available.
Disabled students: Further information and support
These useful resources have lots of expert advice for disabled students, to help you get the support you need to succeed in your higher education journey.
Discover Apprenticeships
Connect with students and promote your apprenticeships/careers to the next generation of talent
Discovery Days
Our Discovery Days aim is to transform students’ decisions about their post-school next steps from an overwhelming choice to something they feel control over. You have the chance to engage and inspire them as they go through this journey.
Discovery exhibitor zone
The Exhibitor Zone contains everything you need when exhibiting at UCAS Discovery events - including the latest updates, handy guides, event-specific information pages, marketing assets and more.
Displaced students
If you're applying to higher education as a refugee, asylum seeker or with an insecure immigration status, there may be support available to help you. This page has been created in collaboration with Refugee Education UK, STAR Network and We Belong.
Distance learning and part-time study
Higher education courses can be studied in flexible ways. There are different study types, work combinations, and part-time options.
Don't know what you want to do after school?
Not sure of your next steps? Going to a UCAS discovery event can help.
Download your guide
Results day can feel like an unknown, so make sure you and your child know how it works and what to expect with our free guide.
Drama and theatre studies 2026 personal statement guide
Whether you want to be writing plays or acting them out, admissions tutors are looking for evidence of your enthusiasm for drama and theatre studies that extends beyond the curriculum, and for your unique personality to come across in your personal statement.
Drive applications through Clearing
Thousands of ambitious intelligent individuals secure their places through Clearing each year. We’re often their first port-of-call for information and advice. Make the most of our relationships to engage the audiences you need to meet your recruitment goals.
Drive applications through Extra
Thousands of ambitious intelligent individuals find themselves in UCAS Extra each year. Make the most of our relationships to reach these unplaced students to meet your recruitment goals.
DSA eligibility FAQs
Our FAQs will help you find out if you're eligible for the Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA).
DSA: Acronyms and abbreviations
Throughout the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) process, you may encounter some new abbreviations and acronyms.
Early Careers and Apprenticeships Report
Insights for employers to build a successful early talent pipeline
Early careers multichannel campaigns
Reach the right candidates and their influencers on the right channels. 1.5 million students come to UCAS each year to explore their next steps – we're ahead of Google when it comes to students seeking information about higher education.
Economics 2026 personal statement guide
You'll need more than a subscription to The Economist to impress admissions tutors. Here’s how to stand out by being relevant, personal, and concise.
Education 2026 personal statement guide
Go beyond teaching in your education personal statement, to really explain your passion and interest in how we learn, the role of education today, and how we can shape learning environments.