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How To Apply

PARTNERS applications for 2025 entry are now closed.
Applications for 2026 entry will open in September 2025. 

PARTNERS Academic Summer School

If you are made an offer at Newcastle University through the PARTNERS Programme, you must attend a compulsory Summer School:

  • Dates: Sunday 29th June – Friday 4th July 2025.
  • Attendance: 2.5 days on campus in Newcastle and 2.5 days online (including live sessions)
  • Assignments: You may need to submit work online up to a week after the summer school dates.

You’ll get your personalised Academic Summer School schedule in May if you choose Newcastle as your firm choice. Attendance is mandatory to receive the lower PARTNERS offer, including completing any assessments by 11 July.

Absences are only allowed for serious, pre-approved reasons (eg. illness or medical reasons). Check the full absence policy here.

Step 5: PARTNERS application outcome

The PARTNERS team will make a decision as to whether you will be provisionally accepted onto the programme based on the eligibility criteria.

You will be kept up-to-date with the progress of your application via the following email addresses:

  • noreply@heat.ac.uk
  • system@heat.ac.uk
  • partners@ncl.ac.uk

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Please make sure that the above email addresses are approved within your email account settings.

If your junk mail filters are set high, the emails we send will go straight into your junk email folder. Please don’t forget to check this folder and then mark us as an approved email address.

 

Step 6: UCAS application outcome

Admissions staff will take the PARTNERS outcome into consideration, consider your UCAS application form and make a final decision as to whether to make you an offer.

If you are provisionally accepted to PARTNERS, any offer you receive will be the lower PARTNERS offer. This will include the successful completion of the PARTNERS Academic Summer School and mean that you have been formally accepted onto the PARTNERS Programme.

In order to take advantage of the PARTNERS offer, you must make the PARTNERS offer your firm choice (CF) through UCAS. You may only make your PARTNERS offer your insurance choice (CI) if your CF is for another course at Newcastle University.

If you are not provisionally accepted to PARTNERS, any offer you receive will be the typical offer.

Step 7: PARTNERS Academic Summer School

If you’re offered a place at Newcastle University through the PARTNERS Programme, you must attend the PARTNERS Academic Summer School.

Confirmed 2025 Dates: Sunday 29 June – Friday 4 July 2025

  • On-Campus: 2.5 days in Newcastle
  • Online: 2.5 days (some live sessions)

You’ll get your personalised Academic Summer School schedule in May if you choose Newcastle as your firm choice. Attendance is mandatory to receive the lower PARTNERS offer, including completing any assessments by 11 July. You must successfully complete the summer school in order to meet the terms of your offer.

Absences are only allowed for serious, pre-approved reasons (eg. illness or medical reasons). Check the full absence policy here.

The PARTNERS Programme is for Year 13/college students or those who’ve already achieved their grades. Apply for the programme when submitting your UCAS application.

Once you have submitted your PARTNERS application, we will aim to inform you whether you have been accepted, within 20 working days from the date your referee has verified your application.