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UK: A-Levels reforms will lead to earlier exams and results before university
26.01.2011
Sixth formers will no longer have to wait for their results before learning if they have secured a place at university under a shake-up of the examination system. Ministers want to move the timing of final school examinations and push the autumn university term back.
A government White Paper, to be published in the spring, will propose that university places would be granted based on actual results.
The deadline to the University and College Admissions Service, which falls tonight, would be moved back about six months.
Meanwhile the start of the university year would be delayed to until January under the reforms being drawn up by ministers.
The reforms would not be introduced for at least two years to allow smooth transition.
David Willetts, the Universities Minister, said the current system needed to be “re-engineered”.
“Instead of speculative applications based on possible A-Level grades everyone is dealing on how (a pupil) performs,” he told The Times.
“It would involve some change in the time at which people do their exams.
“Exam boards would have to move more rapidly and the process of people getting the application into Ucas would have to change.”
Under current systems, students receive conditional offers in the spring, which are not confirmed until A-Level grades are published in late August.
Mr Willetts said the proposals would be “floated” in the White Paper that would be published sometime in the spring.
Universities will likely be against the plans due to the high level of uncertainty they already face.
Source: The Telegraph
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