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Department for Education confirms U-turn as University and College Union warns of “grave error”
The government has U-turned on plans that would have involved prospective students in England applying for university only after they received their exam results.
In a statement published on 24 February, further and higher education minister Michelle Donelan said that after a “careful analysis” of responses to a consultation on post-qualification admissions, the government had “decided not to proceed with this at this time”.
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