Universities will try a radical overhaul of the current
admissions policy for students wanting to attend
university
Research by UCAS has found that around 55% of
predictions for students A-level grades are wrong. Therefore
ministers are examining whether a change in the system where
youngsters apply to universities after receiving their grades,
rather than the current system where they apply based on their
predictions over 6 months in advance.
Steve Smith, Chairman of Universities UK
commented that the majority of errors (47%) were where predictions
of grades were too low rather than too high. One aim is to bring in
online marking of grades which would allow the results of exams to
be bought forward, the plan will be featured in the white paper on
higher education which is published next month.
It was found that the people who tend to over
predict are the state school teachers and further education
colleges, in most cases universities are accepting a BBB graded
students yet end up taking BBC.
There are fears the fee hike for universities
will reduce university income because they cannot fill places, this
may mean that some universities may need to close. Which would be
detrimental to recruitment programmes that look for highly
skilled graduates, and may cause a brain drain of some of the best
graduates who go abroad to attend university.
The affect that these changes may have on
overall graduation rate, and more importantly graduates available
to fill vacancies will mean many companies may not find the right
talent and spend more on recruitment costs.
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