Monday 8 April 2019
07:00 - 09:00
Breakfast for delegates who stayed overnight at Celtic Manor on Sunday night
09:30 - 10:40
Registration, refreshments and exhibition
10:45 - 11:15: External plenary:
11:15 - 11:35: UCAS Plenary:
11:35 - 11:40
Q&A session
11:45 - 12:40: Breakout session one
Collection tool surgery
Apprenticeship admissions
Brexit – what next for higher education?
Data product developments
Do first impressions really count?
International strategy and fast track discussion
Fraud and verification review
Knowing your GPRs from your IPQs: Updates from Cambridge Assessment International Education
Students’ expectations from an adviser experience perspective
A beginner’s guide to the UCAS Undergraduate scheme
12:40 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:50: Plenary panel:
14:50 - 15:20: UCAS Plenary:
15:20 - 15:45
Refreshments and exhibition
15:45 - 16:35: Breakout session two
Extra, Clearing, and Records of Prior Acceptance (RPAs), in practice for the 2021 application cycle
Adviser and agent portals
Clearing for Generation Z
Data fundamentals – getting an EXACT understanding
The show must go on!
Homing instinct: discussing approaches to fee status assessment - facilitated discussion
Keeping on track: UCAS Undergraduate and UCAS Postgraduate
Student wellbeing and mental health: supporting successful transition
Team management and the ever-increasing workload
Get up close and personal with our application management service
16:40 -17:30: Breakout session three
Best practice in handling applicant mitigating circumstances
Collection tool surgery
Communicating with parents
Results embargo
Extra, Clearing, and Records of Prior Acceptance (RPAs), in practice for the 2021 application cycle
Taming the wild west of UCAS Postgraduate
The academic/administrative divide, and how admissions teams can overcome it
Improving social mobility through effective use of data
Predicted grades – why we can’t do them, and why it’s your fault!
Supporting international applicants – from challenge to success
17:30
Close of day one
19:45
Dinner and quiz, followed by disco
Tuesday 9 April 2019
07:00 - 09:00
Breakfast for residential delegates
08:15 - 09:00
Registration, refreshments and exhibition
09:05 - 09:40: External plenary:
09:40 - 10:30: Breakout session four
UCAS Undergraduate application management service (UG AMS) – looking forwards to the 2021 application cycle
Insurance choice debate
Adviser and agent portals
A snapshot of insight from UCAS’ surveys
Emerging cohorts
SITS: Vision – recent and upcoming admission changes
How has the sector responded to changes to questions about criminal convictions?
Survival guide for new or aspiring managers and heads of admissions
An update on developments in IB programmes, with a focus on the revised IB Diploma mathematics curriculum
Psychographics – the future of enrolment strategy with Generation Z
10:30 - 11:00
Refreshments and exhibition
11:00 - 11:50: External plenary panel:
11:55 - 12:50: Breakout session five
Predicted grades – why we can’t do them, and why it’s your fault!
Help us shape our future data products and services
Criminal convictions good practice – facilitated discussion
How UCAS brings customer ideas to life – a software development perspective
Contextual admissions policy in practice: Exploring opportunities and challenges to inform more effective processes
Unconditional offer-making – facilitated discussion
College higher education – opportunities and challenges
You can lead them to water, but you can’t make them drink: Information & Advice
Universities challenged: An interactive discussion into CRM solutions within universities
Helping students ‘settle in’ – managing the transition from applicant to student
12:50 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30: UCAS Plenary:
14:30 - 14:35
14:35 - 15:25: Breakout session six
UCAS Undergraduate application management service (UG AMS) – looking forwards to the 2021 application cycle
UCAS’ modernised contextual data service (MCDS)
Implementing change initiatives on a limited budget: Is it actually possible to do more with less?
Insurance choice debate
Qualification reform update
Is faster really better? Offer-making in a competitive sector
GuildHE Small and specialist meet up
Reviewing UCAS’ admissions principles to avoid bypassing – facilitated discussion
Shaping UCAS’ Corporate Strategy 2020 – 2025: your opportunity to input
The new application service for postgraduate Initial Teacher Training
15:25
Takeaway refreshments and close of Conference