Record numbers of students take up university places
More than 210,000 18-year-old students in England have had their university places confirmed, with 192,000 at their first choice.
According to the Department for Education, a record rate of students from disadvantaged backgrounds will be starting university courses, up 11 per cent proportionately on last year.
Many students will go on to one of the UK’s world leading universities, and the latest data shows there has been a record 20,240 total acceptances of students to nursing courses, and 8,560 acceptances on to medicine and dentistry, up 23 per cent on last year.
Just as they do in any normal year, UCAS will help thousands of students to find places through Clearing if they did not receive the grades they were hoping for, and there is also the option of sitting exams this autumn for those students looking to improve their grade.
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