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Uni applications down 3.4% across the UK
BillieTheBot
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Apologies for launching two P&D threads in the space of a few minutes, but I can't be blamed if it's a busy news day. 
Anyway, some figures;
Applications to start in September 2005 - up 8%.
Applications to start in September 2006 - down 3.4%
Applications to Scottish universities - up 1.6%
Applications to Welsh universities - up 0.5%
English students applying to uni in England - down 4.5%
English students applying to uni in Scotland - up 1.9%
*figures from the University and Colleges Admissions Service. (UCAS)
Full report here.
Overall, I'm not surprised. After all, if you can get your university education cheaper by going to a different part of the country, you might as well do. My other concern is whether this is a temporary drop, or the start of a more long-term fall in numbers. I've also seen reports that fees will rise again in 2010. They may be speculation at the moment, but another rise would, I feel, be highly detrimental. Either way, higher education is facing a very testing time.
Over to you...
Anyway, some figures;Applications to start in September 2005 - up 8%.
Applications to start in September 2006 - down 3.4%
Applications to Scottish universities - up 1.6%
Applications to Welsh universities - up 0.5%
English students applying to uni in England - down 4.5%
English students applying to uni in Scotland - up 1.9%
*figures from the University and Colleges Admissions Service. (UCAS)
Full report here.
Overall, I'm not surprised. After all, if you can get your university education cheaper by going to a different part of the country, you might as well do. My other concern is whether this is a temporary drop, or the start of a more long-term fall in numbers. I've also seen reports that fees will rise again in 2010. They may be speculation at the moment, but another rise would, I feel, be highly detrimental. Either way, higher education is facing a very testing time.
Over to you...
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Ironically if you left school and went straight to the OU you could have a degree, and cash in the bank by the time your contemporaries had left 6th form.
actually true
also vocational courses are undermentioned, nothing wrong with less applicants if its because it's people realising they're best off not going to university
some univerisites have terrible dropout rates, mine doesn't thankfully, mainly because the people who put in an effort to come to the one i go to, have worked out their lives priorities better so feel less like dropping out
like im seriously letting luby know she's better off just doing her BTec in sound engineering stuff and trying to get work after, as all she needs to learn are the basic skills, she dont need to do a degree in music tech
Means universities wont be so stretched with pupils toaccoodate an dmore people will be going into practical jobs like building and plumbing and so forth, jobs we are in need of not having enough of.
Vocational college courses are becoming more and more popular too...
I'm doing one... and I could easily go study things at Univeristy after, such as Business and stuff... but why would I pay all that money when my free education has qualified me to do the job I want to do?
I did say the "smart" way to do it.
Yeah fair enough, my chronology is out. You'd only save yourself two years and the colossal debt. Even if you spent four years doing it you'd still save a year and the debt. Even if you took 5 years you'd still save the debt.
Even if you took 6 years you'd save the debt and have 6 years work experience, a jop and cash in the bank.
Notice my "polyversity" remark? If your going to oxford or something or seriously think it's on the cards then Uni is for you. Most people don't. Massive debt for a degree that'll get you a job on factory workers money? No thanks!