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Article: Leading Article: Don't leave the best and brightest guessing
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 9, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Those first year undergraduates will not be chuffed. Imagine
it. Tanned and skinny after basket weaving in Africa, or learning
Spanish in Cuba, they return bearing photos and trendy ethnic
objects, eager to show off to the "boring squares" who came up
straight from school. Yet to their horror, since they deferred
their entry, the universities have had a change of heart. A pounds
300 bill for top-up fees awaits them when they arrive.
It's bound to happen sooner or later if we go on like this. Tony
Higgins, chief executive of the University and Colleges Admissions
Service, warns that it might happen in 1997; so the travelling
teenagers concerned are the ones awaiting their A-levels this ...