The dangers of underestimating rises in student numbers | Letters

According to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), letting English universities recruit as many students as they like will mean 1,000 more home and EU undergraduates in the coming years. Given that 400,000 full-time undergraduates begin their studies each year, that is both imperceptible and implausible.

It is less than one extra student from each school and college with a sixth form. Yet universities are now free to recruit as many students as they like from the other 27 EU states as well as the four parts of the UK.