The Times today. School levers face 'toughest fight for University places in a decade'. Your comments?

[stayingpositiveifpossible]

Hello there,

Just read this article, not sure if I'm supposed to link but here goes:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cecee68e-f7ed-11ec-84c1-32e852e780b0?shareToken=d4a685d62855dee29864d4d8a9abdf56

My question is, with an already stressed cohort for this year and next year and going forward - how helpful is it to publish something like this? Do you feel it is helpful or alarmist and scaremongering?

I have read alternative views than this, particularly with regard to disadvantaged students?

They're publishing what the potential students already know.

This year's cohort are getting fewer offers, because places already allocated to those who deferred from last year (in some cases were even paid to defer) and are up against those with CAGS, whereas they have done exams after very unequal amounts of actual teaching time.

It's very shit for them

And I'm glad that their situation is getting an airing.

It's not scaremongering, it's just fact, unfortunately.

That does appear to be the case. A member of my extended family has been offered a place at a ‘university’ in the lower quartile of the academic food chain. The lad is barely literate or numerate.