Admissions Process Review 2011 Click to edit Master title style Admissions Process Review Cathy...

Admissions Process Review 2011

Click to edit Master title styleAdmissions Process Review

Cathy GilbertSupporting Progression Conference

Teesside University, 21 March 2012


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• What we have learned from APR

• What happened in 2011?

• What will 2012 admissions throw at us?

• New services from UCAS for school/college liaison folk

Agenda


Click to edit Master title style50 years of centralised admissions



• Is it a fair admissions process?

• Does it support the best match of applicant to course?

• Is it efficient?

• Does it put the applicant at the heart of the process?

• Does it support the best admissions decisions?

• Does it support different types of applicant?

• Does it support different types of courses?

• Does it provide excellent service?

Does the system need to change?



• Complexity (creates need for advice)

• Young have to apply too early

• Insurance

• Clearing

• Predicted grades

Big issues from research



• Complexity creates the need for advice

– Advice about the process vs what and where to study

– Widening participation

Big issues 1


Click to edit Master title styleCourse Finder


Click to edit Master title stylePreparing the Professionals

• Summer 2011: 6 events held across

the UK

• Over 300 professionals attended or

received packs of UCAS materials

• Over 90% of our member

universities involved

• Phase 2 – The ‘professionals portal’

is in final stage of development –

look out for launch info soon!



• Young have to apply too early

– Halfway through first term

– Changed choices

– Rejected offers

– Visits

Big issues 2



• Insurance

– 42% hold insurance offers with conditions that are not

easier than firm choice

– Reapplying as a strategy

Big issues 3


Click to edit Master title styleUK applicants split by whether they are ‘first time’ or have made a previous application



• Clearing

– Fair?

– Applicants stuck in the system

– HEIs managing numbers not applicants

Big issues 4


Click to edit Master title styleBig issues 5 – Predicted Grades

• Predictions made five to eight months before exams

• Fewer than 10% accurate over three A Levels

• Would 90% have made a different application?

• 28% with at least one under-prediction

• Over-prediction is a problem as well as under-prediction


Click to edit Master title styleOur proposals

• 2014: implement a streamlined and improved version of

current process

• 2016 (at the earliest): move to application with results

process

Consultation now closed



• Overall, the responses were clear on the need to maintain a centralised UK-wide admissions system

• The system must enable the UK to maintain a leading position in the global market for higher education

• The responses show strong endorsement for many of the enhancement proposals, for example:– myUCAS– Uploading of documentation– Improved terminology– More discipline on deadlines– A more structured Clearing process

Emerging themes (1)



• Further exploration will be required on:

– An offer window

– Reducing the number of choices

– The Insurance choice

– The needs of international applicants

– The needs of those applying for part-time courses

Emerging themes (2)



• There was support conceptually for applications

post results, but not the model proposed

• Concerns centred around:

– A detrimental impact on Widening Participation

and less well supported applicants

– Loss of teaching time

– A risk of a move to more mechanistic

assessment

Emerging themes (3)


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• Demand?


Click to edit Master title styleUK application rates by selected age group


Click to edit Master title styleKey 18 year old cohort peaked in 2009 for UK


Click to edit Master title styleUK application rates for 18 year olds by gender


Click to edit Master title styleAcceptance rates for UK-domiciled 18 year olds attaining selected A level grade combinations


Click to edit Master title stylePosition at 20 Feb 2012 – Domicile

Applicants: 604,705 560,565 -7.3%

UK: 522,810 478,285 -8.5%

EU (excl. UK): 42,330 37,449 -11.5%

Non EU: 39,565 44,831 13.3%

% change 20122011


Click to edit Master title stylePosition at 20 Feb 2012 – UK applicants by age

UK applicants 522,810 478,285 -8.5%

19 & under: 362,396 336,013 -7.3%

20 to 24: 97,165 85,400 -12.1%

25 to 29: 25,878 23,115 -

10.7%

30 to 39: 24,806 22,432 -9.6%

40 & over: 12,565 11,325 -

9.9%

% change 20122011


Click to edit Master title stylePosition at 20 Feb 2012 – UK 19 & under by domicile

UK 19 & under

Applicants: 362,396 336,013 -7.3%

England: 305,971 280,708 -8.3%

N. Ireland: 14,195 13,685 -3.6%

Scotland: 27,036 26,749 -1.1% Wales:

15,194 14,871 -2.1%

% change 20122011


Click to edit Master title styleUK 19 & under applicants 2012 cycle – 2012 cycleCumulative: 20 Feb 2012

*Incomplete month for Feb 2012 cycle


Click to edit Master title styleUK 19 & under applicants 2010 cycle – 2012 cycleBy month: 20 Feb 2012

*Incomplete month for Feb 2012 cycle


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• Demand?

• AAB+

• What does Clearing look like?


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Cathy GilbertDirector of Customer Strategy

+44 (0)1242 545 482 [email protected]

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