What does the Journey to a Million mean for student support services?
Kieron Broadhead, Senior Executive Director, Students and Infrastructure, and Deputy Vice-President (Operations), University of Southampton
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What does the Journey to a Million mean for student support services?
Kieron Broadhead, Senior Executive Director, Students and Infrastructure, and Deputy Vice-President (Operations), University of Southampton
What does the Journey to a Million mean for the global market?
Carys Willgoss, Principal Policy Adviser, UCAS
What does the Journey to a Million mean for the nature of competition in higher education?
Nicola Dandridge, Professor of Higher Education Policy, University of Bristol.
What is the journey to a million?
UCAS projects that by the end of the decade, we could see up to a million students apply for higher education (HE) across the full range of Level 4 and above opportunities. In collaboration with Unite Students and Knight Frank, we examine those projections in more detail below.
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Some courses have different deadlines – many are a long time before the start of the course. Find out which deadline applies to you, and what you need to do by then.
Where Next? Who applies for Level 4 and 5 qualifications?
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Why are we obsessed with the Journey to a Million applicants?
Clare Marchant, Chief Executive of UCAS, introduces our collection of essays, created in collaboration with Unite Students and Knight Frank, highlighting the challenges and opportunities the Journey to a Million higher education applicants poses both to the education sector and UK PLC.
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