This summer can be described as bittersweert with regards to student’s A level results. Whilst achieving spectacular grades across the board, outdoing previous years considerably, it is also this year’s students who face the biggest rejection in terms of securing their places at university.
It’s been reported by the Guardian that ’a record number of university applicants and the recession are thought to have made the desperate scramble for places more intense than ever’, as a record-breaking six students competed for each place through clearing. Students are facing nothing but a nightmare as the realisation of what they once considered to be their last resorts becomes increasingly tempting, yet evermore unrealistic. On a more positive note, Thailand’s famous full-moon party can expect a full-house next year as an incredible number of students are left in the lurch by education, instead committing themselves to the Gap Year.
markdavison
2 years, 9 months ago
I’ve been helping out on the phone lines at a local University during clearing and it’s been insanely busy (and still is), so it’s not surprising that so many students have been left disappointed.
Unfortunately tougher restrictions by the government on the amount of students are allowed to take combined with a still terrible job market meant that this was going to be somewhat inevitable – it’s a shame that nobody really thought to do anything about this in advance. Hopefully it’ll be sorted out by next year’s admissions (of course not that’ll be much good to this year’s applicants unfortunately).