UCAS Central Council on Admissions (UCCA) and Polytechnics Central Admissions System (PCAS) and the name UCAS is a contraction of the former acronyms UCCA and PCAS. An early proposal was made for the new merged body to be called PUCCA, but this was never adopted. UCCA was the older of the two bodies, having been formed in 1961 to provide a clearing house for university applications in the United Kingdom. It was created in response to concerns during the 1950s that the increase in University applications was unmanageable using the systems then in place, where each student applied individually to as
Student Times (UK paper) Student Times (UK paper) Student Times is a free English national student newspaper which was launched in October 2004. Studenttimes.org was launched in March 2005. The newspaper is distributed to universities and colleges within the United Kingdom, and the publication contains a mixture of national and international student news alongside graduate courses, graduate jobs and careers advice, features, entertainment articles and interviews from external sources. The majority of articles, photographs and illustrations are written and produced by students. Interviews so far have included Tracey Emin, Don McCullin, Goldie Lookin' Chain and Zero 7. In the run up to the 2015