Our next analytical report, Interim assessment of UCAS acceptances by intended entry year, country of institution and qualifications held, will be published tomorrow (23 September 2014). However, we are making the report and full data tables available to you now:
Note: this data is under embargo until 00:01 on 23 September 2014. Selected media will receive the report later this afternoon, and will also be under embargo until 00:01 tomorrow.
This analysis reports UCAS acceptances by intended academic year of entry, between the entry years of 2011-12 and 2014-15.
Reporting acceptances by the academic year they are recruited to, rather than by the UCAS admissions cycle in which they were accepted, is a better guide to the change in the number of those starting higher education in a particular academic year.
These statistics reflect the position recorded on 11 September 2014; exactly four weeks after GCE A level results day. Acceptances at this point are usually around 98% of the eventual end of cycle totals, over recent cycles.
Key points for this report
- UK and EU acceptances at this point are 461,510 (+4%), while the recruitment total of 499,730 (including over 38,000 international students) is an increase of 18,600 (+4%) compared to the same point last year.
- Acceptances are up for universities and colleges in all four UK countries, with percentage increases of between 2% and 4%.
- There is an 8% rise in the number of EU students starting degree courses in England this year (+1,500) as well as increases in the number of Welsh-domiciled students (+660, +9%) to England, and almost 500 more English students taking up places in Scotland (+11%).
- UK and EU students set to begin courses in England covered by the main government number controls, have increased by 9,820 (+3%).
- On these courses, the numbers holding BTEC equivalents of the ‘ABB+’ grade profile have increased by 16%, whereas those holding A Levels with grades of ‘ABB+’ have fallen by 2%. This means the share of the higher-grade group holding vocational qualifications is at its highest level, continuing the trend of recent annual increases.
Please let your communications team/press office know about this release. The reports are subject to final minor amendments. If you have any questions, please email communications@ucas.ac.uk.
Provider level reports
To complement this release, we have prepared a confidential analysis for each university and college, using the same reference point and similar definitions, allowing you to make a direct comparison to the published national report. This is a simplified version of the national report, containing relevant information for your university or college. Within the second set of tables, categories relate to approximate student number control arrangements for England for consistency, based on the information that we hold.
We have also prepared a confidential version of the Daily Clearing Analysis Overview reports at provider level at the same reference point; four weeks after A level results day. These reports will be available to download from our new Secure File Transfer service from tomorrow (23 September 2014). Instructions on how to use the service were provided earlier this month and are also available in the
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