The convention for most university-goers is something like this; leave school, go to college, then apply for university.
In the last decade, in spite of rising tuition fees, students are more likely to apply for university, poorer students are more likely to apply for university, and the inequality gap – while still a problem – has closed.
In 2008, once new rules governing teaching-only universities are in place, he expects BPP to apply for university status.
By next year, universities will begin the recruitment cycle that will see students with no lived experience of the 20th century apply for university places.
At the very least, we can interpret the figures as more young people than this time last year hesitating over whether to apply for university.
The author was removed from school at the age of 10, and when she returned, a teacher advised her to apply for university.
One small business owner said that his teachers treated him as a pariah because of his desire to set up a business rather than apply for university.
Some vice-chancellors relied on naive opinion surveys to argue that working-class students would not apply for university if they had to pay fees.
Would potential changes to the process by which EU students apply for university places – and pay fees for them – put you off or is the course on offer what's important, not the cost?
