170,000 may fail to access higher education in 2009, UCU suggests
Date posted: 19 Jul 2010
A number of people will not be able to gain access to higher education this year due to cutbacks planned by the coalition government, a union has suggested.
Published by Alison Gamble.
Many of the country's school leavers might end up missing out on the chance to go to university in 2010, according to one higher education body.
The number of people applying to study on university courses this year has gone up by an annual figure of 11.6 per cent, UCAS has revealed.
Full-time undergraduate applications have now risen to a level of 660,953, the organisation has announced, with only 592,312 applying in 2009.
However, despite these statistics, the University and College Union (UCU) feels that as many as 170,000 people might be turned away by universities in the coming months.
A skills deficit may arise in the UK as a result of the government's higher education cuts, Sally Hunt, general secretary of the UCU, commented.
She added: "The decision not to fund student places properly and to make savage cuts to higher education will come back and haunt this country."
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