UCAS on resilience

UCAS on resilience

Admissions Resilience   

On 28 May 2026 the Department for Education convened a one-day exercise with regulators, awarding organisations, UCAS, Jisc, UUK and the devolved governments. The exercise tested three hypothetical scenarios of significant disruption to the exams and admissions pipeline. The exams and admissions system has substantial contingencies and resilience arrangements in place, which provide well-founded confidence. The event was a proactive stress test that deliberately focussed on very low-likelihood worst-case scenarios, to test how secure those arrangements are at the extremes.

The exercise surfaced questions about how the sector would respond to a serious disruption, particularly around business continuity at individual institutions, contingency arrangements for partial results, and the threats to students that disruption would create.

In this webinar, Mark will lead a discussion on the three scenarios, share key findings from the exercise and capture any recommendations to be fed back to the Resilience Group ahead of their next meeting in October.

This webinar is intended to brief business continuity professionals as part a dissemination programme that will also be reaching out to Vice-Chancellors, Board Chairs and Admissions Directors.

Mark Webster is the Head of Risk and Resilience at UCAS.  

It will take place on Thursday 16th July at 10am, it will last 45 minutes with questions and answers.

Book Online using the link below or alternatively email [email protected] if you would like to attend.

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