Results When exam results are published, candidates get confirmed places for either their firm or insurance choice or are put into clearing.
As a result, the admissions process no longer works in the traditional formulaic way where Ucas applications led to planned proportions of conditional offers, provisional acceptances, A-level results and confirmed places.
Once confirmed, places will be awarded to Great Britain as a nation rather than individual skaters - who must wait for the British Olympic Association to ratify their selection and confirm their names later this year.
Mr Willetts said he thought that there might be fewer candidates obtaining places through clearing this year - as a result of so many students confirming places early.
Like their counterparts up and down the country, our admissions staff will be working over this weekend in readiness for the communication to confirm places to students who have met their offers and do not need to enter the Clearing process.
There will then be a scramble to confirm places at universities, which this year are allowed to admit as many students as they like after the government's decision to remove the cap.
Setting the date usually occurs at the same time you've confirmed the place of the wedding and the place of the reception.
The results confirmed his place among the inimitable one-offs.
The win, their sixth successive in the league, all but confirmed third place for them.
His appointment as poet laureate in 1850 confirmed his place among his contemporaries.
Her 6-2, 6-4 victory in 92 minutes confirmed her place in the third round.
