Education News » higher education https://www.myklassroom.com/education-news MyKlassroom.com - Social Learning Platform Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:34:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 The rapid evolution in higher education https://www.myklassroom.com/education-news/the-rapid-evolution-in-higher-education/ https://www.myklassroom.com/education-news/the-rapid-evolution-in-higher-education/#comments Fri, 23 May 2014 06:00:09 +0000 http://www.myklassroom.com/education-news/?p=120

In recent years we have seen the gradual lifting of quotas for places and the introduction of adjustment

The options available to today’s school leavers are many and varied, which can only be a good thing for students now and in the years to come, says David Hawkins.

The beginning of May signalled Ucas decision day – the deadline by which most students should have replied to their university offers.

Normally this day passes uneventfully, but this year was different, as many students left it to the last moment to make their final choices.

British higher education is going through a period of rapid transition, seemingly passing by many of those not intimately connected to it.

In recent years we have seen the gradual lifting of quotas for places, the introduction of the option to ‘trade up’ on results day if a student achieves better than their predicted grades and, from 2015, the lifting of all controls over student numbers, creating a free market among British universities.

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