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Withdrawal of funding for Supporting Professionalism in Admissions (SPA) programme

As part of our annual planning and budgeting exercise, the UCAS Board has taken the difficult decision to withdraw funding from the Supporting Professionalism in Admissions (SPA) programme.

Posted Wed 12 July 2017
This means that, unless another funder comes forward, or an alternative, viable business model is developed, SPA will close in its current form by 31 December 2017.

We intend to continue to make SPA’s good practice resources freely available online. We will also continue to fund and commission updates, and new good practice from external experts, where there is sufficient demand from the admissions community.

Over the last 11 years, SPA has played a significant role in championing fair admissions, and providing evidence-based good practice and expertise to enable universities and colleges to take forward fair admissions for the benefit of students. UCAS has funded SPA from the outset, and been the sole funder since 2015-16.

Please see our statement for more information