Archive for 2006

Cut-price clearing may harbour hidden costs

Offering places at ‘discounted prices’ to fill course vacancies would be a risky approach warns OFFA

It is unlikely to be in the longer term interests of either students or universities and colleges to cut fees and/or increase bursaries late in the application cycle, says Sir Martin Harris, Director of the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) [...]

Latest UCAS application figures remain encouraging

Underlying upward trend in UCAS application figures is reassuring says Director of OFFA