For the 2026 UK university application cycle, the Ucas personal statement will take a different format. Find out about the ...

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 ...

Amazingly, the hardest UK unis to get into in 2025 aren’t just Oxbridge (based on entry standards, anyway). This might be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students hoping to start undergraduate courses in 2025 will be able to see the grades that recent successful applicants have achieved at A-level or equivalent. Universities already publish entry ...

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 ...

A-level results day is a moment of joy and triumph for many, as students prepare for life at the university of their choice. But for others, it can be a highly stressful time if their results don’t go ...

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 ...

As an American high school student in Colorado, Zachary Fornelius says his school held projects to help students prepare for applying to college; however, those did not help when it came to applying ...

It is important to work with the applicant to ensure the personal statement and reference are not repetitions of each other and meet their own objectives. The personal statement should address the ...