The number of courses for students in clearing has dropped ahead of A-level results day. One university blamed an “administrative blip” for showing more than 500 as available when they should not have been.
With less than 24 hours to go until the exam results are published on Thursday, August 18 the availability of courses for those who do not get into their first choices was down on last week – most significantly at the University of Liverpool.
As of Wednesday morning, a PA news agency snapshot of the UK’s largest higher education providers showed there were 22,685 courses with vacancies for students living in England, down from 23,280 on Friday. The University of Liverpool had shown 529 courses as available in clearing on the Ucas website last week but it is understood this should not have been the case and was an “administrative blip”.
