UCAS - Preparing the Professionals

Preparing the Professionals

If you work in school liaison, outreach activities, widening participation, recruitment or marketing teams within a university or college, then read on. We know that you all have an important role to play in providing information about all aspects of the application cycle to potential applicants. We want to support that.

Preparing the Professionals, a new initiative from UCAS, is all about giving you access to free, accurate and regular information about UCAS and the application process - with a commitment from us to provide regularly updated presentation material and branded UCAS information. All we ask from you is that the content is then passed on to those who need it, during your normal visits to schools.

UCAS currently delivers a range of training and advice sessions to schools and colleges through its professional development programme. We'll continue to do that, but by working more closely with our colleagues in HEIs, we can ensure important messages get to even more potential applicants. The result is that we can be sure applicants know what they can expect from the application process and you can be reassured that the UCAS information you are presenting is 100% up-to-date.

We are currently running a series of launch events, read more about them here. At these events, to be held across the country, you will be able to receive the first set of presentation information. To book your space on one of these sessions, visit the UCAS events page.

To find out more about how you can benefit from Preparing the Professionals contact Peter Mulligan at UCAS on 01242 544910 or by email p.mulligan@ucas.ac.uk.

Here's some feedback we've received from our launch events ...

'Really useful event with resources that we can use.'

'Very useful sessions - materials and info from UCAS will be much utilised within the dept.'

'Useful materials. Nice to know UCAS are thinking like this and looking at other viewpoints and perspectives.'

'Really helpful seminar which had lots of information. It is clear to see that the IAG team has carried out lots of work and research. This should allow the institutions and UCAS to work together more efficiently.'

'With institutional cuts it is refreshing to be invited to a free event, with free tools which will allow me to do my job more effectively and in turn benefit our students.'