This toolkit is designed to give you everything you need to explain Confirmation, Clearing and Adjustment to your students. More items will be added soon so check back regularly for more useful ways to help your students.
This toolkit is for advisers in schools, colleges and educational agencies worldwide, and international officers from UK universities and colleges who speak to international audiences.
We have created this toolkit to help you advise anyone considering UK higher education.
It includes information for you, your students and their parents, in a variety of formats and with useful links to other parts of our website. More items will be added soon so check back regularly for more useful ways to help your students.
UCAS terms explainedThis document will help you and your students understand the commonly used words and phrases in UK higher education.
Poster: How to get your questions answeredThis poster can be displayed around your school or college and given to students to advise how they can get in touch with us.
Checklist: Parent event checklistUse this checklist before your next parent events to make sure you're prepared and able to give the best possible advice to parents on what they should do.
Video: Studying at university or college in the UK
Our video for international students is a great introduction to UCAS and includes the thoughts of current international students.
Presentation: Applying to study in the UK
This PowerPoint presentation can be used to show the benefits of studying in the UK, how the UCAS application system works and what needs to be considered. We will update this from time to time so please check back occasionally for the latest version.
Welcome Guides: Introduction to UCAS in various languages
Available in 14 languages on our web page for international advisers. Use them to help people understand UCAS and UK higher education.
UCAS international guides
Our guides will help you, your students and their parents get to grips with UK higher education and UCAS.
Education UK Videos
Visit the British Council's official You Tube channel for all of their videos.
Presentation: UCAS help for advisers
This PowerPoint presentation will help you get the most from UCAS and make your job easier. It includes links to adviser resources, information on becoming a UCAS centre and details our training and application tracking opportunities.
International Qualifications Guide
This guide can be used to compare international qualifications with those in the UK.
Extra presents a valuable opportunity to add another choice in advance of results day. We know that some students - and even some teachers and advisers - aren't familiar with Extra, so to help you explain how it works and the benefits of using it, we've created this Extra Toolkit.
It's designed to help you reassure students who have been unsuccessful with all their choices, or those who are worried they won't secure a place.
This toolkit contains the following information:
We would welcome your feedback on all the information we have provided. Did you find it useful? Did the format work for you and your students? Any comments and suggestions would be gratefully received at ucas.editors@ucas.ac.uk.
And remember, there are lots of other ways to get help and information from us ...