Recommendations: 10, 17

Recommendation 10: We recommend that, over the medium term, the representative bodies, in consultation with other relevant agencies, should seek to establish a post-qualification admissions system.

2.1 The Government agrees that students could make better choices if higher education institutions moved to admitting them on the basis of their actual rather than their predicted school leaving exam results. The Education Departments look forward to being involved in the higher education sector’s consideration of whether this is feasible, bearing in mind exam timetables in all parts of the UK.

Recommendation 17: We recommend to institutions of higher education that, over the medium term, their admission procedures should develop to value good levels of competence in communication, numeracy and the practical use of information technology.

2.2 Though admissions are a matter for individual higher education institutions, the Government welcomes this recommendation. DfEE has already provided financial support for development work on a Student Profile which will become part of the Electronic Application System for use by admissions officers.

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