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Applications to UK universities increased
UK, February 15, 2010 – Applications to UK universities have increased up to 23% on their student application even though it has been said that the university entrance is now more competitive than last year according to Ucas. The figures from the university admissions service, Ucas, showed a 22.9% increase in applications. Statistics also said that fewer places for 2010-11 than in 2009-10 this has been confirmed by the university funding chiefs.
This would be the fourth year of increasing the full-time undergraduate applications as the rate is continuously growing more and higher. With this increase on the university applications with universities facing £449m in cuts and that contain the cuts of almost 5% of what had been expected in teaching budgets.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Worcester Professor David Green said that there are lots of university wanting to have more students without funding their places and called on the government to scrap.
“The current economic situation is causing people to apply to higher education,” said Mary Curnock Cook Ucas chief executive
Total all in all of 570,556 would-be students applied to universities in the UK this year. This was 106,389 or 22.9% more than in 2009.
Source:
news.bbc.co.uk
