Press Release
UCAS figures welcome but slow return to 2005 figures and issues for mature students says CMU
17 October 2007
Professor Les Ebdon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire and Chair of the CMU Universities Group said “We are delighted to see record numbers of students in our Universities but these provisional figures suggest that, in comparison to 2005 (the year before variable fees were introduced in England), there are only 7000 more full-time students in 2007 although the number of 18 year olds has increased. More worryingly, the comparative decline in acceptances by mature students (over 25s) has continued, suggesting a need to assess whether the student finance package is geared to the needs of this important group of students.”
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