Every year, students in your catchment miss the grades for their first choice and risk dropping out. Their schools can flag them to you — early, before enrolment closes — so you can offer a place. Expect 20–40 warm, in-catchment applications, not a results-day scramble.
Post-16 recruitment as a strategy, not a scramble.
Every empty place on results day is a young person at risk of becoming NEET. Applicaa Post-16 Clearing is free for schools and colleges — we're not looking to profit from results day, just to make sure every student who wants a place gets one.
Applicaa Post-16 Clearing is how FE colleges reach students in their catchment who are at risk of dropping out — students their schools refer to you, so you can offer a place before they enrol elsewhere.
Post-16 clearing is a strategy, not a scramble. UCAS owns clearing for universities. Applicaa owns it for further education.
Feeder schools flag the students most at risk; Applicaa matches them to the courses you still have places on — so what reaches you is a shortlist that already fits, not a cold list to work through.
Aggregate results from 2,200+ Applicaa feeder schools — grades, subjects, average point score.
The grade profile and subject mix your courses actually need — A-levels, BTECs, T Levels.
The courses and cohorts you still have capacity in.
Ready before enrolment closes. Aggregate data only — no personal student information leaves the platform until a referred student responds.
It doesn't start at 8am on results day. It starts weeks earlier, when schools already know which students are unlikely to stay — and runs through results and enrolment week, when those students are referred to you and you make your offers.
Careers leads — the people who already know their students — shortlist the ones unlikely to stay or at risk of becoming NEET. It's in the school's interest to help them find a place.
Shortlisted students are routed to you through ApplicaOne, matched to the courses you still have places on — with the grades, subjects and distance you need to judge fit.
You review the shortlist and make offers on your terms, filling your empty places before students slip through the gap. No cold-calling, no results-day scramble.
Filter the referred shortlist by what matters to your courses — subject, grade profile and distance (e.g. A-level Maths, within 7 miles, a grade 6+ in GCSE Maths) — and make offers to the students who fit. Referred by their schools, matched to your places.
Every August, thousands of 16-year-olds don't get the results they hoped for and slip through the cracks between schools, colleges and providers. Applicaa Post-16 Clearing is our answer to that. It is free for every school and college in the 2026 pilot — no platform fee, no per-student charge, no upsell on results day. Our team and Emma hand-crank it alongside you because getting every young person into a place matters more than a pricing page.
Places allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. We may cap the pilot at fewer than 10 colleges if we can't deliver a hands-on results day for every college who applies.
Emma is Applicaa's AI agent. During the pilot, she works alongside our team to hand-craft your outreach to referred students and flag the highest-priority ones in real time — for every pilot college.
The pilot is white-glove. Emma is doing the mechanics; a real person from our team is on Slack with you all day.
Search above. We show the scale of demand within 7 miles of your college — anonymised catchment pockets, not named schools.
We walk you through the schools-first referral workflow, tailored to your subject mix and admissions process.
Sign up and we wire up Applicaa Post-16 Clearing before results week. You go into enrolment with warm, referred enquiries, not an empty inbox.
20-minute call. If your college fits and there's a spot open, you're in — with free access to Applicaa Post-16 Clearing for results day 2026 and Emma running the mechanics with you. No fee, no catch: our mission is fewer NEETs, not a bigger invoice.
A member of the Applicaa team will reach out within one working day to set up your 20-minute demo. Watch for an email from @applicaa.com.
(GCSE results day 2026: confirm exact date before publishing.)