Admissions Priority

If courses are oversubscribed (and many are), priority for places will be given in the following order:

1. 1. Current UHS students who meet the entry requirements.
2. 2. External applicants who meet the entry requirements.
3. 3. Current UHS students who do not meet the entry requirements but for whom a workable programme of studies can be arranged.
4. 4. External applicants who do not meet the entry requirements but for whom a workable programme of studies can be arranged.

If you do not meet the entry requirements for some courses, you may still be offered a place:

• If there are places available on a course once those who do not meet the entry requirements have been counted.
• If we believe that you are able to meet the academic demands on the course (taking into account your GCSE performance and prior academic achievement).

We will not offer places to current UHS or external applicants who fail to meet the entry requirements and for whom no reasonable programme of study can be arranged.

Entitlement to free education

The government is enforcing strict checks on entitlement to free education after the age of 16. You are only entitled to a free place in the Sixth Form if you are an EU Citizen or have a Visa which the Immigration Service has stamped allowing you to access state support in the UK.

If your visa is marked ‘no recourse to public funds’ we cannot offer you a place in the Sixth Form. Passport checks will be carried out an all Sixth Form applicants on the Year 12 Induction Day.