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Listen to our live studio podcasts covering everything parents need to know about education and careers, from university applications to the skills shaping the jobs of tomorrow. Get expert advice to help guide your child’s future.

Over the past four years, UCAS has released these high-impact reports that shone a light on pertinent issues in education and skills.

We publish a wide range of undergraduate, conservatoire, and teacher training statistics and analysis reports throughout the year, for use across the education sector and beyond.

If you are in care, or have experience of being in care in the past, there's lots of support available in higher education to help you with finance, accommodation, and settling in.

Higher education is an inclusive environment where support can be provided to help you study. Find out more.

Clearing remains a crucial route into higher education, helping students secure a place that aligns with their aspirations. To better understand the motivations, behaviours, and experiences of applicants using this pathway, we’ve gathered insights from the 2024 Clearing Student Survey.

Discover how your apprenticeship can earn UCAS Tariff points, helping you access higher education and take the next big step in your career.

From open days and taster courses to exhibitions and lectures, university events can offer significant support for your higher education guidance work – and to the academic experience of your students.

Jennifer Coupland, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education

Dr Lisa Morrison Coulthard, Research Director: Optimal Pathways Development, National Foundation for Education Research (NFER)

Heather Cousins, Deputy Secretary, Skills and Education Group in the Department for the Economy examines what increased competition means for student progression in Northern Ireland.

Jeremy Miles MS, Welsh Minister for Education and Welsh Language examines what increased competition means for student progression in Wales.

Rt. Hon Robert Halfon, Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, examines what increased competition means for student progression in England.

Professor Edward Peck CBE, Vice-Chancellor Nottingham Trent University and Department for Education Higher Education Student Support Champion

Andy Forbes, Head of Development at the Lifelong Education Commission and Apprenticeship Champion for UCAS

Rt. Hon Justine Greening, Former Secretary of State for Education and Chairman of the Purpose Coalition, examines what the Journey to a Million means for widening access and participation, levelling up and how we maintain the interest of disadvantaged students.

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.

UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is an independent charity and the UK's shared admissions service for higher education.

These editable presentation slides help you explore different higher education (HE) routes your students could follow after sixth form – for assemblies or tutor time.

Whether you met your conditional offer straight away or found a place through Clearing, most students chart the next stage of their higher education journey on results day.