Academic requirements: the admission requirements for getting the first higher education vary depending on the university. More detailed information can be received from booklets, web-sites or through direct contact with the institution.
Non-academic requirements: with the purpose of reducing the risk of dropout, universities want to be confident of the entrant's motivation. Therefore, it is necessary for the students not only to conform to the academic requirements, but to show interest in the subject of the course, and confidence of success. In some cases, experience in the sphere close to the chosen specialty is required. It is particularly the motivation of the entrant that secures his/her chances of being admitted, especially in such professional spheres as medicine, law, design.
The procedure of applying for admission in Great Britain has a significant advantage which consists in the existence of a special service, engaged in coordination of entrants' applications. This service is called UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admission Service). All the universities (except for the UK Open University) and the majority of colleges of higher education are members of the UCAS. The procedure of applying to the system of UCAS is as follows. It is necessary to fill in a special questionnaire at the Internet site of UCAS www.ucas.com, pay registration fee, and wait for the decision of the universities.
The system of UCAS allows applying for admission to up to 6 universities simultaneously! The first place usually goes to "an unattainable ideal" of London School of Economics' type, and the 6-th one goes to something from the last twenty of a rating just to have a guarantee of being admitted. And then one just has to wait for the universities' reply. The variants of answers: "your application is rejected", "you are accepted", "you are conditionally accepted". The majority receive at first particularly this CONDITIONAL admission. The university by means of the UCAS informs you on the requirement you are to conform to for getting not "conditional", but "unconditional" or "full" admission. As a rule, the entrant has to retake one or several examinations with the purpose of getting a higher grade. In response the aspirant can either accept the exact or safe-offer, or send a refusal. It is possible to reject the accepted offer later, but the aspirant has no right to apply to other universities this year or undergo the system of clearing.
Clearing: if the aspirant has rejected the received offers from the universities or has received none, he/she can participate in the procedure of clearing. Clearing is a process of filling the remaining vacancies in institutes in the course of several last weeks before the announcement of examination results. If the aspirant is going to fill the vacancy stated by the university, it is necessary for him/her to contact the university and to find out whether his/her results of examinations correspond to the given vacancy. Having considered the "clearing" application of an entrant, the university informs the UCAS of its decision.
The second higher education. Every year well over 30 thousand students from all over the world choose Great Britain the place for getting their second higher education.
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