About 28,000 A-level students who want to go to university ‘have no offer’
by Sally Weale Education correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#62GF5)
Analysis by data experts finds the figure has increased from about 16,000 at this stage of admissions process in 2019
About 28,000 students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who applied to go to university are without an offer just days before A-level results are due to be published, according to data experts.
In what promises to be one of the most competitive university admission rounds in recent memory, analysis by DataHE found the total number of 18-year-olds not holding an offer has increased from about 16,000 at this stage in the admissions process in 2019 to 27,850 in 2022.
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