The government has announced that it will review the university admissions system. It will set out proposals for consultation in the coming months. The news comes on the same day that Universities UK has published its Fair Admissions Review which aims to build greater levels of transparency, trust, and public understanding in admissions practices. The recommendations in the review include the ending of ‘conditional unconditional’ offers, guidance on the acceptable use of unconditional offers, a new code of practice to maintain standards, greater transparency, consistency, and standard indicators to support contextual offer-making and a proposed switch to post-qualifications admissions (PQA) – where applicants express interest in universities, and offers are made to applicants after they have achieved their qualifications.
