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Professor Peter Slee DVC - Talks changes to UCAS
THE University of Huddersfield’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Slee, gives a BBC radio Leeds interview in which he expresses conditional approval for proposals by UCAS that the system for university admissions should be changed – that places should be allocated AFTER exam results rather than based on predicted results, a massive proportion of which turn out to be inaccurate. Professor Slee describes the present system as complex and leading to a colossal amount of wasted administrative effort. To change the system would mean that A-levels would have to be taken and marked earlier and university terms begin later than at present. It would be a “big ask”, says Prof Slee, but if problems could be ironed out, the new system would be better than the current one, he believes.
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