Students with
AAB at A-level are going to be given more places at university with
a relax on the limit of places
available
The move that will allow higher achievers onto
courses with AAB grades are reported to undermine the efforts of
recruiting poorer students. The proposals set to be published
next week will hope to encourage more consumer information and
rights, including a ‘student’s charter’.
This will hopefully improve competition, with
universities competing for funding for places, with a set number of
guaranteed places available and the rest will have to be bid
for.
The plan is designed to improve competition
between universities for the highest achievers; this is against the
previous plan which outlined taking students which also showed
potential, therefore taking more students from state schools. Ms
Tatlow, head of Million+ group said about the AAB plan "If the
government goes down this path it may well compromise universities'
abilities to use contextual data in admissions.
"This would greatly undermine their hopes for
improved social mobility."
"The real risk is that all this distracts from
the major challenge for 2012 which is ensuring that students with a
range of qualifications are still encouraged to study at
university."
With graduate recruitment still slow, and many
graduates’ unemployed, the government will have to be careful with
how they conduct their plans. Many students may see this as an
unfair attack on them and will not plan to attend university which
may affect graduate numbers and create a brain drain in England,
with many of the top
graduates going abroad.
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