This service supplies providers with historic data, going back to 2008, about an applicant’s school or college. This is in addition to postcode data through POLAR2, POLAR3, and the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD). The data can be used to assess an applicant’s achievement and potential in light of their educational and socio-economic background.
If you want to use the contextual data service, you need to register with us, and make it clear to applicants that you’re accessing this and how it is being used in the admissions process. We’ll shortly be inviting feedback on the service, to form part of a wider project exploring how we can better support providers with contextualised admissions. For more information and to register, please contact contextualdata@ucas.ac.uk.
The 2015 data below is now available through the UCAS link products.
*Due to the implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland, the methodology used to calculate this measure has changed, and as such, we have made changes to accommodate this new data, which is only available in web-link.