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Our detailed data resources are published at the end of each application cycle.

Each course, and most universities and colleges, have different requirements – usually a mix of qualifications, subjects, or exam grades. Learn more about them here.

In this section are a number of UCAS responses and comments in relation to relevant consultations and other key publications. Click on each consultation to view and download the details.

Find out about Initial Teacher Education or Training (ITET) programmes across the UK. They're broadly similar, but the routes, entry requirements, and statutory teaching standards are different depending on where you plan to train and teach.

If your child has decided university is the right path for them, here’s what they’ll need to know about making a UCAS application.

Anthony McClaran, Vice-Chancellor St Mary’s University Twickenham and Chair of GuildHE

Find additional financial support for travel, meals and accommodation costs, course equipment, and childcare from one of these schemes.

Students who have spent time in care are entitled to support with going to university. Here are some practical ways in which you can support care experienced students research their options and prepare for their next step, which we have developed with experts such as the Care Leavers' Covenant, Become, the National Network for the Education of Care Leavers (NNECL) and Who Cares? Scotland.

Here you’ll find out more about understanding your training providers’ decisions and replying to your offers.

Find help and training to support your role as an adviser in UK higher education.

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

This page provides information to support teachers and advisers to find Outreach Connection Service opportunities through the adviser portal.

Information and resources for teachers to help students choose their post-16 education and training.

Versatile training options—online, face-to-face, or personalised—available at a time and place that suits you. Whether you're familiar with UCAS or brand new to our systems, we know how important it is that every teacher and adviser feels confident guiding students through the higher education application process. We have a range of training options to suit you. 

After GCSEs/National 5s, you could stay in school, go to a sixth form college, go to a further education (FE) college, or join a work-based training provider.

Whether you are a careers adviser, or a teacher supporting students, you'll need to continually reflect on your careers practice to keep improving the value of what you do. We can help with some of this...

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Choosing what to do after GCSEs can be difficult. Talk through your options with teachers, parents or carers, friends, and careers services.