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Applications for September 2025 entry are now open
Our application window for 2025 entry open on Friday 11 October and close on Friday 13 December. Click here to be taken to our application portal. Applicants who apply by the advertised deadline will be contacted and advised about the next steps once applications open. Please be aware that interviews take place between February – March 2025. The information below answers some of our most common questions about applying and the application process.
Students can only submit one application to HNC, however they can amend their application choices, including at interview. Our post interview course change window also provides a period of time where a student can discuss amending their offer with us.
You may be attending a number of College interviews. If so, please remember you are free to accept places at as many institutions as you wish. This reserves your place on your chosen courses until GCSE Results Day, when you are then free to make a final decision if required. It is important to note that no College or Sixth Form can insist that you must make a choice and decline any other offers. We cannot reactivate any unaccepted offers after the acceptance deadline of Friday 25 April 2025. Our ability to offer places post GCSE Results Day is dependent on availability, and some courses are heavily oversubscribed. Therefore we strongly advise all applicants to accept their place.
All applications are reviewed ahead of being offered the opportunity of an interview. The interview is an opportunity to discuss your long term vision, and build a study programme to support this. This will include ensuring that we review predicted grades, attendance and behaviour to inform our ability to issue a conditional offer at interview. Further advice, top tips and information will be shared in due course.
For the majority of applicants, a decision will be given at interview. For most students an interview results in a conditional offer. A conditional offer means that a student that students will be able to enrol on GCSE Results Day on the study programme for which they have been given an offer, subject to them achieving the published entry criteria for the course.
Once you have accepted your place, you will be given an invitation to log in to our online Campus HNC @ Home (live post GCSEs). This will invite you to explore HNC and complete some subject-based activities which will give you a head start and support you to understand where your programme of study and the life-changing opportunities on offer at HNC can take you.
You will also receive an invitation to our Welcome Event, Hudd Fest. This is taking place on Friday 12 July 2025. This event will provide you with an opportunity to meet fellow potential students and your new teachers, as well as providing a final opportunity to explore the College ahead of you joining us in September.
Enrolment at HNC takes place online via our student record portal, CEDAR and all students who have accepted a place will be sent detailed instructions ahead of receiving their GCSE results. You will be asked to upload your GCSE results online by 4:30pm on 21 August 2025 and complete the enrolment registration form. Both steps must be completed in order to enrol. You do not need to be available to come on to Campus, but you must be contactable via telephone from Thursday 21 August to Friday 29 August in case we need to discuss your enrolment with you. You must remain contactable for these dates, or until you receive your enrolment confirmation email. If need to contact you but we are unable to, please be aware that your place at HNC will be at risk. Your compulsory Induction Day/ first day of teaching will be Monday 1 September 2025 and all enrolled students must attend on this day.
In the meantime, if you have any questions about your application, please get in touch. You can call Student Services on 01484 652341 or email studentservices@huddnewcoll.ac.uk
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