Universities: Admissions

(asked on 19th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of students who have been granted a university place after obtaining three D grades or lower at A-level in each of the last three years.


Answered by
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Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 9th January 2019

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publish data on the number of English 18 year-olds accepted into full-time higher education (HE) by A level points score.

The table below shows the number of 18 year-olds in England who held at least three A levels and were accepted into HE with A level points equivalent to DDD or below:

Year

2016

2017

2018

Acceptances

6,605

7,095

7,505

These figures are not published at an institution level.

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