Disrupted Studies Notification

The Compact Scheme

The Compact Scheme involved schools and colleges and the University of Sheffield working together to help students identify Higher Education opportunities.

Compact will not operate during the 2012 entry cycle. Some of the Compact Scheme's qualifying criteria have been absorbed in the way we use contextual data to support holistic assessment of undergraduate applications.

Our new Disrupted Studies form allows undergraduate applicants to tell us about any circumstances that have adversely affected their post-16 studies. This is available to download from the box on the right hand side of this page.

Disrupted Studies

If you are an undergraduate applicant and you have experienced issues of a personal, social or domestic nature that have affected your post-16 studies, you can let us know by completing our Disrupted Studies form.

These are issues that can be difficult to discuss at length in the UCAS application, such as periods of illness, disruption at home or the protracted absence of a permanent subject teacher. 

Your notification of Disrupted Studies should:

• arrive via our Disrupted Studies form, which should be completed in full
• be supported by your UCAS referee
• where possible, arrive at the same time as your UCAS form

If we receive information after you have made your UCAS application, we cannot guarantee to consider this when deciding whether or not to invite you to interview, or make you an offer. However information will still be accepted until 31 July of the year of entry, and will be reviewed when exam results are released in August.


More information is available via the following links:

Guidance for applicants

Guidance for Heads of 6th Form/UCAS referees