THOUSANDS of scholars throughout Scotland will obtain their highly-anticipated SQA outcomes on Tuesday.
However for many who haven’t fairly made the grade they anticipated, there’s one other manner of stepping into college – by means of UCAS clearing.
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Round 70,000 college students throughout the UK secured their spot at a college by means of clearing in 2020, with 19,000 of these having not utilized to uni earlier within the yr.
With Scotland’s examination outcomes day firmly upon us and 138,000 college students about to get their outcomes, we’ve pulled collectively a helpful information to assist pupils and oldsters by means of the method of UCAS clearing.
What’s UCAS clearing?
Clearing is how universities and faculties fill any locations they nonetheless have on their programs.
Pupils have till October 18 to use for a course utilizing clearing if they aren’t already holding a proposal from college or faculty, and the course nonetheless has locations.
You should use clearing if:
- you’re making use of after 30 June
- you didn’t obtain any gives (or none you wished to simply accept)
- you didn’t meet the circumstances of your gives
- you have paid the a number of alternative utility payment of £26.50
- you’ve declined your agency place utilizing the ‘decline my place’ button in your utility
How do I apply for UCAS clearing?
You’ll be able to seek for vacancies based mostly in your most well-liked college, location or topic utilizing the UCAS search software . These vacancies are up to date repeatedly by the colleges till mid-September.
Right here, you may submit your utility the place you’ll be given a clearing quantity. You then contact the colleges straight to verify whether or not they’ll give you a spot. As soon as given permission from the college or faculty, you need to then ‘Add Clearing Selection’ although the UCAS hub.
Full particulars on the UCAS clearing course of may be discovered on their web site.
