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

The number of UK 18-year-olds applying for the most selective university courses has fallen slightly, following last year’s record high.

Degree courses training our next generation of health and social care professionals are continuing to accept applications, and new UCAS insight shows students from all walks of life will receive a warm welcome.

Here’s what you need to know.

More people than ever have applied this year for university courses with a 15 October deadline.

Robin Barrs, Head of Access in the Access & Widening Participation Office at University College London, has advice for advisers supporting students through the admissions process.

The number of students accepted onto nursing courses in higher education in 2017 was 28,620, the second highest figure on record, a 0.9% decrease on 2016.

Figures released by UCAS show a robust start to the university admissions cycle for 2018, with the highest number of applicants to October deadline courses recorded since reporting at this deadline began.

These are aimed at broadening horizons – exploring higher education alongside all the post-18 options to help students make informed decisions.

UCAS has launched a series of innovative online courses to help today’s students, and the people who advise them, navigate the tricky business of deciding what to do when they leave secondary education.

In May this year, we’ll be launching a new multi-destination search tool on ucas.com, with access to over 50,000 undergraduate, postgraduate, and conservatoire courses.

Today UCAS publishes its first statistical release of the 2017 undergraduate cycle, detailing applicant numbers for higher education courses with an early October deadline only.

Today we've launched our first ever massive open online courses (MOOCs), in partnership with FutureLearn – a social learning platform based in the UK, providing free, online courses from the world’s leading educators.

On Tuesday 9 February 2016, at its Annual Conference for Teachers and Advisers, at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, UCAS announced it’s to launch its first ever massive open online courses (MOOCs), in partnership with FutureLearn.

UCAS today publishes the 2014 UCAS Conservatoires End of Cycle Report, a detailed analytical report setting out the nature of admissions to this important part of higher education provision

UCAS today publishes the 2014 UCAS Teacher Training End of Cycle Report, the first full analysis of the new admissions service for postgraduate teacher training courses.

Over 461,000 UCAS applicants from the EU and UK are beginning UK degree courses in 2014-15.

Over 461,000 UCAS applicants from the EU and UK are beginning UK degree courses in 2014-15.

Teenagers in the South West are the first to benefit from the new UCAS Progress service, which helps young people make the right choices after GCSEs.