Many candidates
with high marks at A-level have been told to wait a year to go to
university
A-level candidates who received top grades at
university are being told to apply again next year even though
tuition fees are increasing. Around 402,000 applicants were
accepted on to degrees at university with a further 78,000 still
waiting on a decision. Yet this leaves out around 200,000 of the
680,000 in total that applied.
Mary Curnock Cook, the chief executive of the
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas), said: "Those
people who have good grades and for whatever reason haven't got an
offer, it is absolutely the right thing to do to apply next year
with the grades in your pocket. You don't have the agonising wait
till August. You will have an unconditional offer, which you may
well have before Christmas."
She also suggested that well placed students
with top grades are more likely to wait till next year to apply and
gain an unconditional offer straight away. "I think there is an
understanding about clearing – that there don't tend to be many
vacancies in the more selective type of courses, they have filled
up their places.”
Some of the UK’s biggest employers are
starting to look at school leavers instead of graduates for the
graduate
training schemes, as they feel that many bright students from
less affluent areas will be put off by the increase in tuition
fees. This will also affect the amount of graduates
available, as many students are unable to gain a place at
university due to popular demand.
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