This week, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) published data for higher education applications received by 15 January for the 2013 academic cycle. As well as showing a 3.5% rise in applications to UK universities on the same point last year, the data revealed an increase in applications from 18 year olds from the [...]
Last week, UCAS published its final end-of-cycle data on full-time higher education applications and acceptances for 2012. They showed, as expected, that there was a significant drop in the number of full-time students going to British universities in 2012. Beyond this, there was little agreement among commentators and in the media as to what the [...]
There are some welcome trends captured in last week’s UCAS End of Cycle report 2012 – notably the 10% rise in 18 year olds from disadvantaged backgrounds going to elite universities and the increase in students going to their first-choice institution – but the overall picture is of a worrying fall in full-time student admissions [...]
