13-12-2018, 03:10 AM
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With three D grades at A-level, 80% got university places
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46543102Almost 77% of successful applicants had lower grades than had been predicted - and the admissions service says it wants to work with schools on getting more accurate predictions next year.
Overall, across all applicants with A-levels, there was almost a 90% chance that an applicant found a place.
13-12-2018, 04:00 AM
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Re: With three D grades at A-level, 80% got university places
Interestingly, the opposite is going on here. Brick and mortar schools are full, new faculty is unaffordable, and so many people are sodeeply in debt with school loans that many colleges and universities are raising minimum grade point averages and test scores.I'm not sure I'd be able to get into university today.
Not that they'd want me.
13-12-2018, 10:30 AM
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Only the best used to go to university, that was when a degree meant something. I see people with degrees working in takeaways and cleaning these days, they don't seem particularly clever people to me so goodness knows that their degree was worth.
13-12-2018, 11:02 AM
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Originally a ploy by Tony Blair to massage the unemployment figures and get kids on full time education rather than the dole queue, since then, a way for the universities to make money by peddling useless degree courses and dumbing down entry qualifications to maintain that income stream.
13-12-2018, 04:55 PM
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Re: With three D grades at A-level, 80% got university places
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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They have had to lower the entry standards to keep everyone happy.
25-01-2019, 08:34 AM
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Re: With three D grades at A-level, 80% got university places
Clampdown on luring students with unconditional offershttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46919855
The Office for Students (OfS) compares the indiscriminate use of unconditional offers to pressure selling and says it could be in breach of consumer law.
There has been a steep rise in students offered places irrespective of grades.
OfS researchers looked at the two different kinds of unconditional offer, those that:
- guarantee a place, with no conditions
- are unconditional only if an applicant makes the university their first choice
Overall, the number of unconditional offers to 18-year-olds rose from 3,000 in 2013 to 117,000 in 2018, while "conditional unconditional" offers rose from zero in 2013 to 66,000 by 2018.
Overall, 14% of students received unconditional offers last year - but this varied widely between types of institution.
# Highly selective universities that demand very high A-level grades are least likely to make unconditional offers, with those that ask for lower grades more likely to make unconditional offers.
25-01-2019, 08:57 AM
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They just want bums on seats to justify the course....they don't seem to be concerned about drop out rates which are very high. They should be paid on how many qualify not on numbers that start the course....that would focus them on success rates rather than entry rates.|
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