Ross Clark Ross Clark

University challenge: the next education crisis

Institutions are now fighting for their survival

On the insistence of university authorities, freshers’ week will be an online affair this year. But if this autumn is not much fun for students, it will be a lot less fun still for university staff whose admissions system has just been thrown into turmoil by the A-level results debacle.

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