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Mr Cross


Wednesday 17 January 2018

Two-year degrees to be introduced

Jo Johnson, Minister of State, has said that students in England are to be offered degrees in two years with fees 20% less than a three-year course. He said that he wanted to "break the mould" of a system in which three-year degrees have "crowded out" more flexible ways of studying. Students would take the same number of units and have the same amount of teaching and supervision. As well as reduced tuition fees, students will save on a year's living costs and be able to start working a year earlier, a package which Mr Johnson says could cut costs by £25,000.

Rise in unconditional offers

Since 2014, the number of unconditional places offered by universities has risen from 2,985 to 51,615 and of the 259,230 Sixth Form students who applied to university this year, nearly 1:5 received an unconditional offer. The latest figures also show that 10.6% of students predicted to get CCC were given an unconditional offer, compared with just 4.6% of students who were predicted to achieve three A*s. In 2014, unconditional offers were only awarded to exceptional candidates. Further analysis of the data shows that just one quarter of students actually achieved, or exceeded, their predicted grades, suggesting that thousands of guaranteed places were awarded using unreliable predictions.