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Originally posted by skive:
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Originally posted by Moomin:
One minute I am busy with something and forget all about this, and then suddenly I will remember how close it is now, and I feel sick.
Aw have a
moomin, it's natural to be anxious but I can honestly say that most students get the place they want even if they don't quite get the grades they've been told they need.
As others have mentioned the whole clearing process starts as soon as the results are out and there's a lot of juggling around.
Also MrSkive works in Higher Education at a national level and he'd tell you that, unfortunately, Universities are much more about being a business these days and are more concerned with the money a student brings rather than their grades.
You can't be implying that we compromise our entry requirements for 'bums on seats'. Ms Skive!?
At my uni, we don't reduce our entry points much
during clearning but we do knock a few off and become....'more symapathetic to soft-curriculum skills'.
. The pressures we feel from Senior Management to generate revenue doesn't mean we drop entry quals much but that we must make offers to
more people with the required UCAS points than we used to (affecting our staff-student ratio...quite dangerously).