SPA’s revised good practice on entry requirements includes the distinction between entry requirements, typical/standard offers and actual offers made, and considerations for reviewing and communicating entry requirements.
The QAA’s UK Quality Code for HE, Chapter B2 on recruitment, selection, and admission, specifically highlights the need for transparent entry requirements. This is reflected in the Competition and Markets Authority’s advice on consumer protection law, which notes that course-related material information made available to applicants must include published ‘entry requirements/criteria (both academic and non-academic), and an indication of the standard/typical offer level criteria’.
Entry requirements should not be reviewed in isolation, but in terms of their relationship to offers and offer-making strategy. SPA continues to work with HE providers and UCAS to help ensure high standards of transparency and consistency are maintained in entry requirements and offer-making, and to encourage good practice.
Please contact SPA at enquiries@spa.ac.uk with any comments or suggestions on the good practice.