Why does it matter how students get their place in university?
Analysis: As institutions race to recruit, Eleanor Busby looks at how tactics affect school leavers
Universities have increasingly come under fire for the tactics they use to recruit school leavers.
First it was for unconditional offers – where students are offered a place on a degree course regardless of their exam grades – and now the spotlight is on "strings attached" unconditional offers, in which students are told they are guaranteed a place on the course but only if they make it their first choice.
The latest data from Ucas shows that there were seven universities last year where more than half of the offers made to students were “conditional unconditional” despite a government crackdown.
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