英国很多大学为了竞争和广告效果,把入学要求(Entry Requirements)定的比较高,但如果学生没有考到要求的成绩也会收,这是个大家都在玩的game(要求定的高说明学校牛X),但一般也就降低2个grade左右,这个报道说低了5个Grades大学都收,而且是Russel Group大学,这太ridiculous了。降5个Grades,就是说offer的要求是AAA,实际考到BCC都要。
英国上大学年龄的年轻人减少EU来的人也减少,大学为了招学生也是拼了,除了降grades越来越多的给unconditional的offer,这个问题不是只有排名低的学校有排名高的Russel Group大学也有。
过去大学招生每个学校有配额,最近几年配额取消,学校能招多少就招多少,所以很多排名高能招到学生的就拼命招,据说这方面比较成功的是UCL(未经证实),传闻说它的学生人数增加了三分之一,有了钱就盖房子建一个新校区,问题是老师人数没有怎么增加,教学设施也不是短时期就能改善的,会不会因为学生人数增加每个学生得到的资源减少这就难说了。
Universities are admitting students whose A-level results are up to five grades below offer, head warns
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/10/04/universities-admitting-students-whose-a-level-results-five-grades/
Universities are admitting students whose A-level results are up to five grades below their original offer, a leading headmaster has warned.
Chris Ramsey, head of the £37,860-a-year Whitgift School in south London, said that Russell Group institutions are increasingly giving places to 18-year-olds regardless of whether they meet their offers or not.
Mr Ramsey, who chairs the universities committee at the Headmasters’ and Headmistress’ Conference (HMC), said that there is growing concern among schools about the practise.
“The biggest gap at my schools was five grades down from the offer admitted,” he told headteachers at the annual HMC conference in Manchester.
“We had plenty of fives across HMC schools, fours were commonplace, threes, twos.” He said that in the past two to three years, there has been an increase in the number of students being accepted to their universities of choice despite missing their offer.
Mr Ramsey said that if this pattern continues, university offers risk losing their integrity as word spreads among pupils that they do not really need to meet their offers as they may well be given a place either way.
The trend comes amid fierce competition among universities to attract students, even if it means disregarding their usual entry requirements.
The lifting of student number controls in England in 2015 gave universities free rein to recruit as many undergraduates as they see fit - but the move has led to accusations that they now act like businesses, seeking to maximise their revenue by recruiting as many students as possible.
A dip in the population of 18-year-olds in recent years has also heightened competition between universities. "
There were significant rises in university offers a few years ago, and schools responded by predicting in some cases ambitiously, though always realistically," Mr Ramsey said.
"However, there is the potential for an unhelpful vicious circle if universities think schools will over predict and ‘control’ for that by setting offers higher than they need to.
“The reality is that in the last three years, and particularly this last year, many candidates have gained entry to their chosen universities with grades lower than those required.”
Universities have also been giving out rising numbers of unconditional offers. In the past year alone, there has been a 32 per cent rise the unconditional offers, according to new figures released by Ucas, the university admissions service.
Dame Janet Beers, who is vice Chancellor at Liverpool University and President of Universities UK, told heads that she not in favour of them.
“We don’t use unconditional offers,” she said. “This is partly because I’m in charge and I don’t agree with them.”