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A second year of falling entry rates for UK 18 year olds at A level results today. Rates were down across the UK and for different group - including POLAR4 Q1 here which recorded largest ever fall. Unexpectedly higher grades boosted entry in 21 but not last year.

Tough environment for young university applicants today shown by the placed rate, what % get in, being down. This is despite fewer applicants looking for places and after the big fall last year. Driven by English 18 who have gone back a decade in success rates.

The The Times and The Sunday Times covering this exceptionally hard year for English 18 year olds getting into university - including our analysis. Chances of getting 'first choice' plunge to post-2012 low of 63%. - a low for post 2012. 47,590 went into weekend without a place, a record level.

The The Times and The Sunday Times surveys a tough environment for English 18 year olds this year drawing on our analysis. 'First choice' rates plunge to post-2012 low (63%), unplaced hit new high (47,590), record fall in grades (12.7 to 11.7 points), and record missing top grades (55,000).

Are EU students coming back to UK universities? Numbers are up for the first time in five years. But.. (1) It isn't EU, only Ireland (2) It isn't UK HE, just NI universities (3) Partly a timing change (with ILC) So not a turning point, yet - more here linkedin.com/posts/markcorv…

Readers of the Wall Street Journal will be familiar with the problem of ‘skyrocketing’ university fees crimping access. But their deep look at UK universities today finds home fees falling below cost of teaching seems to be doing much the same. wsj.com/us-news/educat… via The Wall Street Journal

Ahead of #LabourPartyConference we are releasing work with Mark Corver of dataHE using a unique dataset to analyse trends in access to higher education between 1997 and 2022. Exclusive in the Financial Times today: ft.com/content/f1d1de…

Today - on possibly the longest ever Higher Education Policy Institute blog post - a proposal for UK undergraduate education funding. It scraps fees, debt and interest for students, provides viable funding and freedom for universities, and makes governments relaxed about growing universities again.

Some genuinely innovative and fundamentally different approaches to funding higher ed here from Mark Corver who seeks to balance the interests of students, universities, government and employers Higher Education Policy Institute bit.ly/3MAxyCS

The university funding system is causing growing pain for students and government. And now inflicting heavy damage on universities too. We recently shared some new proposals through Higher Education Policy Institute and here talk some of these over with Tom Richmond. No painless solutions.

The run of weak data for UK universities continues. We estimate UK18 application rates for 2024 down again, 41.5% to 40.2%, bit steeper than UCAS as we handle population differently. Faltering demand is set back for universities, pushing success rates back up likely response.

Is the EU making a come back for UK university recruitment. Perhaps. It is certainly outperforming UK 18 year olds this year. More here linkedin.com/posts/markcorv…

Should teenagers who don’t find a #university place have to pay for a second chance? So far this year we’ve charged £800k to try-again teenagers. But UK demand is weak and if only 1 in 10 are put off by having to pay twice then sector could lose £70M. linkedin.com/posts/markcorv…

UCAS has taken nearly £2M in application fees from the poorest families in UK so far this cycle, according to data from Mark Corver 👇🏼 linkedin.com/posts/markcorv…

Frozen funding levels for UK students falling behind rising costs for universities remains all you need to understand UK HE at the moment. Timely reminder in @ft today. University finances are in dangerous territory ft.com/content/b56f56…