Summarize this content to 1000 words PA MediaAfter results day, last Thursday, many 18-year-olds have secured a university place - including thousands through clearingUniversities asking for the highest entry grades have so far accepted 8% more students this year than in 2023. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) data suggests universities are being more flexible about students' grades. Many universities are keen to fill places on their courses, to
Summarize this content to 1000 words Grade boundaries show the minimum number of marks you need for each grade. They are decided by examiners and published on results day.Qualifications Wales, which oversees Welsh exams, has said there is still a risk that performance in some subjects has not fully recovered since the pandemic. So, it will use statistics to help set the grade boundaries, external, to prevent marks dropping below
Summarize this content to 1000 words PA MediaPotential students are being offered the chance of rent-free accommodation and cash prizes as part of universities' attempts to encourage them to apply through clearing.At St Mary's University, Twickenham, students were offered entry into a cash prize draw for applying early.While at University of Gloucestershire, the prize in a similar draw was a year of rent-free accommodation. These are "inappropriate inducements", according to
Summarize this content to 1000 words Getty ImagesFinally, after five years of changing approaches to exams and grading, this is it.This is the year that A-level grades across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are back, more or less, to where they were before Covid.Most students getting level three results were in Year 9 when the pandemic started.They were the first year group to sit in-person GCSEs after Covid lockdowns, when
Summarize this content to 1000 words Most students will leave university owing money. The Student Loans Company says graduates in England leave university with average debts of £44,940.In general, most graduates can expect to earn more than non-graduates, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)., externalHowever, it suggests the extra money earned from a university education has declined.According to HESA's survey of 2020-21 graduates, the average salary reported 15
Summarize this content to 1000 words Getty ImagesStudents in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive A-level, T-level and BTec Nationals results on Thursday morning.It is the first year that A-level grades are expected to fall back down to 2019 levels in all three nations.It follows a spike in top grades in 2020 and 2021, when exams were cancelled because of Covid, and a phased effort to bring them back
Summarize this content to 1000 words Each exam is graded on a scale from A* to E.Grade boundaries show the minimum number of marks you need for each grade. They are decided by examiners and published on results day.Qualifications Wales, which oversees Welsh exams, has said there is still a risk that performance in some subjects has not fully recovered since the pandemic. So, it will use statistics to help
Summarize this content to 1000 words In 2020 there were more than 12,000 vocational qualifications at all levels, offered by more than 150 awarding bodies, according to Ofqual, which oversees qualifications.T-levels were brought in by the previous government to streamline post-16 education and make things less confusing for students and employers.Under those plans, funding was set to be withdrawn for some other vocational qualifications. However, days before the first changes
Summarize this content to 1000 words Anna JonakAnna Jonak from Portadown started her degree during the coronavirus pandemicTop degree grades are awarded to about three in every 10 students at Northern Ireland's universities, new figures show.The proportion of students achieving first-class degrees in Northern Ireland in 2022-23 was 29% - a slight fall from the previous year - figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) showAcross the UK as
Summarize this content to 1000 words Getty ImagesThe number of international students studying at Scotland’s universities rose to a record high in the 2022-2023 academic year.Overseas students made up nearly 29% of the total, with their tuition fees providing an important source of funding for universities. The biggest proportion by far continued to come from China – nearly 20,000 students – but thousands more came from India, Nigeria and the
