Record Number Eligible For Clearing
A record number of students are eligible for clearing compared to the same time last year.
The numbers, released by the university admissions service Ucas, will add pressure to disappointed A-level students facing an intense scramble to secure a place at university.
Clearing is available to students who failed to meet the grades required for their first choice of university and their insurance offer, as well as those who declined all their offers or did not receive any.
With universities increasing tuition fees from next year, competition for places is fiercer than ever and the clearing process is expected to last over the next few days.
Ucas said that by midnight last night there were 185,684 students eligible for clearing, compared to 180,632 at the same time last year.
Ucas added that the number of courses showing vacancies is 29,409 – a drop from 33,105 last year.
The service said that 56.4% of the 681,593 people who applied to start undergraduate university courses this autumn have been accepted so far – the same figure as last year.
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Clearing 2011: Telegraph and UCAS provide live university places
The telegraph has a deal with UCAS and an application for your iphone or android device.
For the first time, applicants will be able to search available Clearing places by university, course and region on a website other than UCAS.
Information on the Clearing 2011 site will update constantly throughout the day with official UCAS data, ensuring that students and parents don’t waste time chasing places that have already been taken.
The flexible results recognise that for some students the most important thing is to end up at specific university while others will prioritise a certain course or the chance to study in a chosen region.
Once an applicant has found a place right for them, the Clearing site provides the phone number for the relevant university’s admission office, and all the details they will need when they make the call.
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UCAS Step-by-step guide to clearing
From UCAS
The facts about Clearing
Clearing is a service that operates between mid-July and September. You can take part in Clearing if you have already applied through UCAS and you are in one of the following categories.
* You have not received any offers.
* You have declined all your offers or not responded by the due date.
* Your offers have not been confirmed because you have not met the conditions (eg you have not achieved the required grades).
* You have declined a changed course, a changed date of entry and/or changed point of entry offer.
* You applied for one course which has been declined/unsuccessful and you have paid the full £19 fee.
* We receive your application after 30 June 2010. If we receive your application after this date, we will not send it to any universities and colleges.
1. Get advice
2. Look at the vacancies
3. Contact universities and colleges that interest you
4. Clearing Number.
5. Accepting an offer
6. Adding a Clearing choice
7. Your place is confirmed
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