Check out the third release of Journey to a Million essays
On Thursday 18 May, in partnership with Knight Frank and Unite Students, we’re dropping our third round
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Check out the third release of Journey to a Million essays
On Thursday 18 May, in partnership with Knight Frank and Unite Students, we’re dropping our third round
UCAS Tariff points allocated for T Levels
Today, UCAS has confirmed the Tariff point allocation for T Levels.
Reminder: Check your Outstanding Decisions List (ODL) and send us your decisions
Your Confirmation Outstanding Decisions List (ODL) – which ran on 18 August – shows applicants who have
Please check and update the vacancy status of your programmes
Please ensure that all training programmes to which you are no longer actively recruiting are marked
What you need to know about UCAS applications ahead of the summer
If you’re new to supporting applicants, check out our top ten tips for the month ahead so you know what
Five tips to ace your adviser portal 2026 set-up
Each year, UCAS rolls over your centre’s details — staff, groups, referees, and qualifications. But to
Top tips for supporting last-minute applications
With not long to go now until the January ECD, no doubt all us teachers and advisers up and down the
Why the education section on the UCAS application matters
Sam Sykes, UCAS Lead for Schools and Colleges, shares the latest guidance.
Free school meals fee waiver FAQs
Thank you to all those advisers supporting eligible applicants to receive the undergraduate fee waiver.
Unconditional Change at Confirmation (UCC) Decisions
The change at confirmation decision (UCC), can be used where you wish to offer a place in confirmation
Looking ahead to 2025 undergraduate applications
The dates and deadlines for 2025 undergraduate applications are now available.
Managing your XML-Link access account
We are seeing an influx of incidents being raised where a HEP is unable to connect to XML-Link due to
Delivery of Extra Statistical Data (Star X)
Following the delivery of the data for your HESA data return Extra statistical data can now be made available
UCAS Data for HESA statutory returns (Star J) 2023 – available on 23 November 2023
We’re pleased to confirm the UCAS Data for Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) statutory returns
UCAS Tracker (basic) is now available
Application and Decision Tracker has been a long established, admissions data service within UCAS used
Preparing for migrating to XML-Link
To move your student record system (SRS) connection to XML-Link make sure you have:
Record of Prior Acceptance (RPAs)
The final deadline for submitting all RPAs is Monday 16 October but we advise submitting them by Friday
Record of Prior Acceptance (RPAs)
If you are submitting RPAs in bulk via the spreadsheet, we strongly encourage you to complete this by
Reject by Default (RBD) deadline
The Reject by Default (RBD) deadline for confirmation decisions is 6pm on Thursday 14 September.