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Record university offers as top A-level grades slip By Sean Coughlan Education correspondent
Image captionStudents are finding out their A-level and AS results
Record numbers of UK university places have been offered - as A-level results show a marginal fall in top grades for the fifth successive year.
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The proportion of A* and A grades was 25.8%, down by 0.1% on last year. The pass rate of 98.1% remained the same.
The Ucas admissions services says 424,000 places have been offered, up by 3% on results day last year.
There are predictions of many places still being available through clearing, including in leading universities.
Universities say this year could be a "buyer's market" for applications with universities competing to attract students.
This is mainly due to a decline in the number of 18-year-olds and the removal of the cap on the number of places universities in England can offer.
Hundreds of thousands of teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are receiving their A-level and AS results. Students in Scotland have already receivedtheir exam results.
'Unchanged'
The A-level results show a stable pattern compared with last year.
Michael Turner, director general of the Joint Council for Qualifications, said: "Overall, outcomes are relatively unchanged."
Girls continue to get better results than boys, with 79.7% of girls getting grades A* to C, compared with 75% for boys.
But the gap between the very top-performing girls and boys at A-level has narrowed for the first time in five years.
Boys tend to do better at the top grade, this is partly due to the nature of the subjects they choose.
And there has been a further decline in the number of entries for modern languages.
Malcolm Trobe, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, warned that this could reflect funding pressures and that schools could not afford subjects with small numbers of pupils.
AS levels are being "decoupled" from being part of A-levels - and this year's figures show a 13.7% drop in entries.
Teachers and head teachers' leaders have warned that, below the surface of this stability, individual schools and pupils face more unpredictable outcomes.
Image copyrightPAImage captionUniversities are expecting to have more places available this year
"Students and their teachers are bracing themselves for greater volatility in this year's results," said Ms Keates, leader of the NASUWT teachers' union.
She said that schools had to contend with new content in AS and A-levels.
Head teachers' leader Russell Hobby forecast "significant variation" and unexpected results, behind the picture given by the national statistics.
"For individual students, teachers and schools this is a real concern," said Mr Hobby.
For those students who miss out on required grades for university, there are expected to be more opportunities available through the clearing system.
This will include leading universities within the Russell Group, which have signalled that they expect to have places on offer.
Apprenticeships
There is a demographic dip in the number of school leavers and the removal of any limit on student numbers in England means that universities could be competing to attract students to fill places.
Middlesex University said this year would be a "buyer's market".
London South Bank University is running a 36-hours non-stop clearing service, remaining open all night for inquiries from students.
But students starting at England's universities in the autumn could face higher fees than the previous cap of £9,000 before they finish.
Image copyrightPAImage captionSchool leavers may also aim to begin apprenticeships
There will also be opportunities for those not going to university, with financial services firm PwC announcing that it has had a 20% increase in two years in recruiting directly from those leaving school with A-levels.
And a study from the Social Market Foundation, also released on results day, shows that vocational qualifications are an increasingly common route into university, often in combination with A-levels.
School standards minister Nick Gibb said: "We want to make our country a place where there is no limit on anyone's ambition or what they can achieve.
"It is hugely encouraging that this year sees a record 424,000 applicants already securing a place at one of our world-class universities, with increasing numbers from disadvantaged backgrounds gaining a place as well. "
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