Varsities flooded with applications, but there just isn’t enough space

Nine universities received more than a million applications, but there are only 67,689 places available

25 January 2022 - 20:14

Medicine, law and teaching are attracting the most number of applications from first-year students this year, if those received by nine universities are anything to go by...

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