UCAS institutes, parents and legal guardians of applicants, school and Further Education college staff involved in helping students apply and providers of higher education (universities and HE colleges). While UCAS is best known for its undergraduate application service (the main UCAS scheme), it also operates a number of other admissions services: UCAS is based near Marle Hill in Cheltenham at the junction of the B4075 ("New Barn Lane") and the A435 ("Evesham Road"), near Cheltenham Racecourse and a park and ride. It is situated just inside the parish of Prestbury, Gloucestershire. UCAS was formed in 1992 by the merger of Universities
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