Undergraduate Admissions

Responses from Cambridge

The University of Cambridge takes seriously its role as one of the UK's leading universities and where appropriate responds to issues that relate to admissions and/or impact on the higher education sector.

Topic Document Date
DPSG Spring Consultation Consultation on the creation of a single admissions process for art and design May 2008
Use of A* at A level Collective response to an enquiry regarding use of A*s November 2007
Extended Project Collective response to an enquiry regarding use of the Extended Project in admission selection decisions November 2007
Access to HE Grading the Access to HE Diploma July 2007
QAA consultation on standardising access courses July 2005
Attitude to internally assessed grades Collective response to an enquiry regarding the credence given to internally assessed grades June 2007
Improving the Higher Education Applications Process  Delivery partnership Consultation 3: Models to implement an adjusment period June 2007
Delivery Partnership Consultation 1: Draft Statement of Good Practice on Feedback June 2007
Response to the Delivery Partnership discussion paper on the Gathered Field April 2007
Response to DfES consultation on improving the HE applications process November 2005
Towards A Cambridge Pre-University Qualification Response to the "Cambridge Bac" consultation paper November 2005
Unit Grades Agreed statement on the use of unit grades in conditional offers for 2006-7 June 2006
Consultation on proposed incorporation of unit grade information into HE admissions November 2004
14-19 Reform UCAS/DfES CDG Mathematics questionnaire report (including response to discussion points) June 2006
Response to UCAS/DfES Curriculum Development Group discussion questions on the 14-19 Education white paper June 2005
Response to the Interim Report of the Working Group on 14-19 Reform May 2004
Response to the Consultation on the Principles for Reform of 14-19 Learning Programmes and Qualifications October 2003
Number of A levels subjects studied Collective response to an enquiry regarding the number of A level subjects studied February 2006
So you want to go to Oxbridge? Tell me about a banana… by Ivo Stourton More Advert than Advice: A review by Geoff Parks (Director of Admissions for the Cambridge Colleges)
 November 2005
uniTEST uniTEST Survey August 2005
Aimhigher The future of Aimhigher June 2005
Fair Admissions to Higher Education (Schwartz Report) Response to the Fair Admissions to Higher Education: draft recommendations for consultation May 2004
Response to the Consultation on Key Issues Relating to Fair Admissions to Higher Education November 2003
Oxbridge Entrance - The Real Rules by Elfi Pallis Setting the Record Straight: A review by Geoff Parks (Director of Admissions for the Cambridge Colleges) February 2004