UKPASS UKPASS UKPASS (UK Postgraduate Application and Statistical Service) is the UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service), postgraduate application service. UKPASS is operated from UCAS offices in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. UKPASS was launched by UCAS in 2007. UKPASS offers a Course Search facility for all postgraduate courses in the UK, and an application service to the 21 institutions currently using UKPASS. Applications can be submitted online through the UKPASS website. Applicants can make up to ten applications, with core data pre-populated from one application to the next. Applicants track the progress of their applications and reply to offers online. The website gives
UCAS and in the first year it handled around 140,000 applications to polytechnic courses, of whom 40,000 a year went on to study at polytechnics. Although many polytechnics offered art and design programmes, and some also offered teacher training courses, these admissions systems remained outside PCAS. Art and Design admissions worked to a later timetable as a result of the role Art Foundation courses had in developing a student's proposed specialism (painting, sculpture, graphic design and so on). Work was furthermore generally submitted before a decision was made on whether to interview. However means of absorbing the Art and Design Admissions