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
UK Advisory Committee on Degree Awarding Powers UK Advisory Committee on Degree Awarding Powers The UK Advisory Committee on Degree Awarding Powers (ACDAP), is a committee within the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. It is responsible for considering applications for degree awarding powers and university title (DAP/UT), and providing confidential advice via the Board to the Privy Council. All applications for new universities must be approved by the Committee. ACDAP is responsible for considering applications for degree awarding powers and university title (DAP/UT). No organisation may award degrees or call itself a university in the UK unless authorised to do so by the government via the