Students are being rewarded places on degree courses with less than two E’s at A-level
Two fifths of every student accepted onto a degree course last year achieved lower grades than two Es at A-level. This figure has sharply increased within the last seven years, it equates to 144,000 students from England.
There were also figures of mature students who hadn’t achieved A-levels but were returning to higher education, and also that many courses accepted applicants that aren’t recognised by UCAS’s tariff system, which means there are many non-EU applicants accepted into the Universities.
It is also predicted that by 2020 as many as 100,000 English applicants could be turned down for a university place. However taking into consideration that tuition fees are going up, it is less likely that failing A-level students will want to risk taking on heavy debt when they may not achieve a degree at the end oir even have the guarentee of a graduate job. Also universities have seen the government put limits on the amount of applicants they can accept, which means grade guidelines and non-EU applications may go un-seen.
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