University applications dip caused by student finance confusion

Tue, 31 Jan 2012

The fall in the number of university applications from England-based learners has been caused partly by confusion regarding student finance, it has been suggested.

Professor David Green, vice-chancellor of the University of Worcester, noted young people are likely to have been put off from heading into higher education because they mistakenly believe they have to pay the fees at university registration, the London Evening Standard reports.

However, a student loan is used to settle these costs - and this arrangement does not need to start being repaid until the scholar has secured a job that earns them more than £21,000 a year.

Professor Green was speaking in response to new figures published by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas), which showed the number of individuals from England making moves to begin a degree has tumbled by more than 42,000.

Ucas - whose services are used by more than 50,000 people every year - found the overall proportion of UK students to have applied for places on a course by the deadline of January 15th feel by 8.7 per cent.
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