UCAS - Key documents

Key documents

UCAS Corporate strategy

This document sets out the strategic direction for UCAS between 2010 and 2015. It introduces our new Ten Point Strategy, with the underlying themes of developing new services to members that will drive efficiency in the sector, improving the match of applicants to courses and extending the reach and effectiveness of information about higher education to those who need to use it.

Download UCAS Corporate Strategy 2010-2015 (PDF 141 KB)

UCAS 2012 End of Cycle report

The analysis in this report builds on our 2012 application demand analysis 'How have applications for full-time undergraduate higher education in the UK changed in 2012?' (July 2012), completing the picture of this cycle with outcomes in terms of acceptances for higher education, entry rates, offer making, tuition fees, qualifications and differences by background and sex. We focus on the 18 year old cohort, which is both the largest group within our datasets and provides the clearest signal for understanding the changes in 2012.

Download UCAS 2012 End of Cycle report (PDF 2.23 MB)

UCAS 2011 End of cycle report - statistical analysis

This compendium of data from the 2011 cycle builds on the first End of Cycle Report we published last year. It contains a new section of analytical data as well as detailed tables and charts showing applicant and acceptance data by domicile, institution country, age, gender, ethnicity, POLAR2 group (deprivation index), type of school or college, distance travelled, type of higher education institution and subject area. In many cases, we have included historical data for additional context.

Download UCAS 2011 End of cycle report - statistical analysis (PDF 1.63 MB)

UCAS Admissions Process Review - Consultation

This report is presented for consultation on behalf of the UCAS Board and is the culmination of six months' work by the UCAS Admissions Process Review Team and Steering Group. It represents the first comprehensive review of an admissions process which has served the higher education sector and applicants well for 50 years since the inception of UCCA in 1961.

Download UCAS Admissions Process Review - Consultation (PDF 2.20 MB)

UCAS Admissions Process Review - Consultation findings and recommendations

This report sets out our recommendations following the Admissions Process Review and Consultation. We believe that implementing these recommendations will deliver real improvements in the centralised admissions process for entry to UK undergraduate courses of higher education for all users of the system; applicants, those who prepare and advise them, and the institutions which seek to admit students who will derive life-changing benefits from higher education.

Download UCAS Admissions Process Review - Consultation findings and recommendations (PDF 1.00 MB)

UCAS Qualifications Information Review Consultation

This consultation represents a comprehensive review of the qualifications information needs of higher education institutions (HEIs), schools, colleges and advisers and applicants to higher education (HE).

Download UCAS Qualifications Information Review Consultation (PDF 1.51 MB)

UCAS Qualifications Information Review Findings and Recommendations

This report sets out our recommendations and next steps following the Qualifications Information Review and Consultation. We believe that implementing these recommendations will deliver real benefits to learners, teachers and advisers, and higher education institutions (HEIs) by providing better, more consistent, comparable, and searchable information about qualifications to inform admissions to higher education (HE).

Download UCAS Qualifications Information Review Findings and Recommendations (PDF 626 KB)