The UCAS Clearing process

CLEARING is open to you if: -

1. You received no offers
2. You have declined all of your offers
3. You do not meet the conditional grades for either your firm or insurance choice.

What do you need to do?

1) Deal with clearing yourself! Do not leave it to your parents to sort out although they will of course provide you support in this stressful time.

2) You must be available in person to speak to admissions tutors and make decisions. Plan your summer holidays so that you are at home or in a position to be able to contact universities on results day. You can call as many universities and colleges as you like during Clearing.

3) Look at the vacancies on the UCAS website. Official vacancy lists are published on the UCAS website. You do not have to stick to course choices you made originally - it is now a free for all and based on your recent results there may be things that would suit you better. Act quickly as not all universities post vacancies and places tend to fill up quickly.

4) Contact the universities that interest you. It is a good idea to have a pre prepared list in front of you of the top 15 you would be happy in going to etc...

5) Check your clearing number. This will be displayed on the 'welcome page and choices page' in your track. When you contact a university they will ask you for this number to confirm that they can consider you in clearing.

6) Adding a clearing choice on UCAS. If you are offered a place, they will give you a date by which you must enter their course details in to track. See the UCAS website for more details on this process.

http://www.ucas.com/students/nextsteps/clearing/todo

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Guardian University Guide

Make sure if you are looking for a university in the UK that you check out the Guardian University Guide. It has a wealth of useful information including: -

• A course search function
• League tables
• Information about fees and finance
• Information for parents
• General university news and events

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/universityguide?intcmp=122

IBDP Vacation courses and Revision guides

OSC is a social enterprise whose aim is to support IBDP students through a range of courses including: -

1. Pre IBDP summer schools (Oxford, Boston and Vancouver)
2. USA University Application course (Boston)
3. UK Universities tour (starts and ends in Oxford)
4. Revision courses (Oxford, Boston, Vancouver)

Go to www.osc-ib.com/socialenterprise for more detail.

University Challenge

In less than six months time, students in Year 13 will be leaving behind the familiar routine of NCBIS and many will embark on a new and exciting phase of their lives at university.

For the majority of our students, going to university will mean that they will be leaving home (and possibly the country) and living independently for the first time. This process can be intimidating for both parents and students and therefore during PSHE this term, we are running a short course that will address some of the non-academic issues that your son/ daughter may face upon heading to university.

This course will cover issues such as:

1. What will life as a student be like?
2. How streetwise am I? (personal safety)
3. Sex and relationships
4. Alcohol use and abuse
5. Student finance and budgeting

The first week's session looked at personal safety issues at University and students complete a quiz on 'how street smart' they were. Here is the PPT from that session.

Personal safety at university

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University of British Columbia Summer Sholars Program

When?
July 15th to July 28th (14 days)

Where?
UBC's Okanagan Campus in Kelowna, BC, Canada

What?

• Study environmental science and sustainability with top UBC professors.
• Enjoy a challenging learning experience at one of the world's leading universities.
• Experience the Okanagan valley during a variety of field experience and trips.
• Meet new friends from around the world while living on a university campus.

For more information go to
www.summerprogram.isi.ubc.ca

Student Finance UK

Those of you moving to study in the United Kingdom next year will now be starting to look in to applying for student finance. If you are an EU or UK student then you will be eligible to take out student loans to help meet course fees and living costs.

Full details on how to access these are included in the link below. Please feel free to come and see me at anytime for more information on how to access loans.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/EducationAndLearning/UniversityAndHigherEducation/StudentFinance/index.htm

Global higher education consultants visit NCBIS Tuesday 24th April

There will be a speaker coming from Global Consultants coming to deliver a presentation at NCBIS on Tuesday 24th April at 12.35pm. All students are welcome to attend however the main focus is on students in Year 10,11 and 12. The consultant represents the following institutions.

• Les Roches International School of Hotel Management - Switzerland
• Glion Institute of Higher Education- Switzerland
• NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano - Italy
• Kendall College - USA
• New School of Architecture Design - USA
• Santa Fe University of Art and Design - New Mexico
• Blue Mountain International Hotel Management School - Australia