UKPASS general information about planning postgraduate study and detailed information on postgraduate finance, and many hints and links for international student applicants. UKPASS offers higher education institutions a flexible streamlined off-the-shelf application management service which helps them make efficiency gains while attracting high quality applicants. Applications for postgraduate courses are also available through other UCAS services as follows: 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
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education called a university. No organisation may award degrees or call itself a university in the UK unless authorised to do so by the government. Applications are considered by a dedicated QAA committee, the UK Advisory Committee on Degree Awarding Powers, enabling its board to offer advice to ministers. QAA is the regulator for the Access to Higher Education Diploma which enables adults without A-Levels or their equivalent to progress to higher education. Organisations known as Access Validating Agencies (AVAs) are responsible for validating and reviewing Access courses and awarding the Diploma to successful students. QAA licenses and monitors the AVAs