If you’re receiving your A-level results this year, you may have heard of clearing. This is the process students can go through if they don’t receive the grades they were expecting and miss out on ...

A record number of 18-year-olds are likely to get into their first choice of university this year, the head of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) has said - even if they narrowly ...

The number of UK 18-year-olds applying for early deadline university courses, including Oxbridge, has hit a record high.

Universities asking for the highest entry grades have so far accepted 8% more students this year than in 2023. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) data suggests universities are ...

Ucas is the online application process for all British universities, for both domestic and international students. Preparation is key to producing a top-level application form. Be aware of what the ...

Ucas has admitted it has more work to do after new data reveals that black students are 22 times more likely to have their university applications investigated than their white counterparts. The ...

Ucas is changing personal statements, long the bane of teenagers' final year at school, for university admissions. Instead of a 4,000-character statement, from next year applicants will be asked to ...

Students will need to be "quick off the mark" to get a place at a top university through clearing this year, according to the head of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas). Clare ...

The change comes amid claims that the personal statements favour middle-class students who may have better access to “high-quality advice and guidance”, according to Ucas. The 4,000-character essay ...

Ten days before the A-level results that were published this week, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) adopted a public cloud infrastructure to scale up its IT and to improve the ...