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Published Date: 28 June 2009
RECORD numbers of students, including thousands with straight-A exam passes, could fail to get places at university as the recession fuels a huge increase in applications, writes Marc Horne.
It has been reported that demand for degree courses has surged by almost 65,000 across the UK despite few extra places being available.

With the deadline for applications looming on Tuesday, numbers are believed to be up 11 per cent throughout Britain.

University chiefs admitted entrance criteria would be tightened up, with the number of places handed out through clearing slumping to a new low. David Willetts, the shadow skills secretary, said: "We have a major crisis looming."





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  • Last Updated: 27 June 2009 9:25 PM
  • Source: Scotland On Sunday
  • Location: Scotland
 
1

Jock's Away,

Africa 28/06/2009 07:17:01
The up side is the jobs market will not be flooded with unemployable,unemployed disenchanted ex students. The Univerisites are factories turning out a product over academically qualified for the majority of procuctive jobs likely available over the next couple of decades.
As the ship/car/Steel industries, if you produce items not fit for purpose,the buyers don't want, and will not pay for, the company goes bankrupt. 101 of life.
Willet is right there is a crisis looming, BUT what is it?
2

The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 28/06/2009 11:08:19
The first major crisis is the one staring us in the face - the inevitable huge taxation increase which Gordon Brown denies is about to happen. The response to this must be to remove Brown at the earliest opportunity and cause Labour to be unelectable for a generation, then take sensible measure to drastically prune public sector expenses (plenty of examples of profligacy there recently e.g. MPs, MEPs, Lords, quangoes including BBC bubbly, private jets etc etc) and start paying off the gargantuan debt that the imbecile has built up. Where money is available it could go profitably to shoring up productive industry and services and force the banks to help in this respect or let them go to the wall.

The only road out is to reassign the correct priority to public expense and to invigorate wealth-producing industry. Anything else is just printing money in la-la land.

3

The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 28/06/2009 11:09:40
Oh yeah, and cancel the £60bn/annum help for "poorer countries" (thought that was us) to deal with the effects of global warming.
4

Roy,

28/06/2009 13:26:44
A huge increase in applications - while many universities are planning cuts in teaching staff and courses.
5

Eve,

Scotland 29/06/2009 16:17:31
Why should we feel sorry for Straight A student, even if they don't get in Uni or College they be in high demand in the work place and will be fine.

Why NOT actually think about the people who have lower grades and who are going to find it even more difficult to get in to further education and work.

I really don't like the way that this article concentrates on these poor students who got top marks. Some people work twice as hard as them and get lower grades. I hate this must get straight A's culture pressure on the youths.

High School isn't every thing. It's just an event in yer life time, which is later insagnifat to smart individuals. Wish I knew that when I left school,it would have improved my confidence.

 

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