Friday, September 09, 2005

Cat-007 [Big Boss Cuts] Take-5 <~>

Cat-007 [Big Boss Cuts] Take-5 <~> University entry options set out... The report does not propose alterations to term dates... Two ways in which UK higher education applications could be made "fairer" are being set out by the government... In a move to help poorer students, they involve applications being made after A-level and Higher Education results are known, rather than using predicted grades. This is known as post-qualification applications or PQA. One option is to have a "pure PQA" system. The other would keep conditional offers based on students' records, but reserve some places until results come out... Devolution issue... The changes could be implemented in time for those starting university in 2008... The existing system has many good features but it could be fairer. ..