The admissions guide provides a full description of the CUKAS application process for admissions staff

The admissions guide is intended for all conservatoire staff who are involved in the admissions process. It describes the CUKAS recruitment policy and provides detailed information about the procedures for each stage of the application process. These include application processing, decision-making and confirming applicants' places after the examination results.

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CUKAS Admissions Guide 2012 entry

From 2012 entry: applicants will be able to enter, into certain fields of their application, an extended range of character sets. Information shown in Apply will refer to the extended characters as 'European characters'. Characters that do not have a suitable ASCII English character version will be substituted with '#'.

View a full list of character substitutions from the Unicode extended character to ASCII English character version (PDF - not password-protected) (February 2011).


Abbreviations for guaranteed and reserve conditional offers

Abbreviations for guaranteed and reserve unconditional offers

Subject codes

Withdrawal codes and an example of a withdrawal decision


Setting up CUKAS conservatoire and course data in web-link

It's really important to keep your conservatoire and course information up-to-date and some find it hard to find their way around web-link to update the information.

To help you a new PDF is now available to give advice on how to set up your data that is published online ahead of the start of the new application cycle, as well as essential information that will be used during the cycle. Its focus is on information that CUKAS provides to applicants as well as for communications with you.


Qualifications guides

UK Qualifications 2012
Access the UK Qualifications guide PDF.

International Qualifications 2012
Access the International Qualifications guide PDF.