Pulling myself together I picked up the phone and started to ring around universities, places not on the clearing website but places I wanted to go to.
There were 41,000 courses with vacancies listed on the Ucas clearing website on Thursday afternoon – up from 37,000 at the same time last year.
A snapshot survey of the Ucas clearing website taken on Thursday by the Press Association discovered that 19 members of the Russell Group of leading research universities were collectively advertising spaces for UK students on about 3,600 courses.
Elevation data was obtained from the Mississippi Automated Resource Information System MARISS) data clearing website, and also from the National Elevation Dataset NEDD) produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) seamless data warehouse (MARIS 2014; USGS 2015).
According to the Ucas Clearing website there are vacancies for courses beginning in the next two weeks at at least six out of the Russell Group's 24 universities, including Birmingham, Sheffield and Queen Mary's, University of London.
You don't say whether he applied to university, but if he did and he doesn't have any offers he can go into the clearing system and should look at available courses on the Ucas clearing website or in the Daily Telegraph.
