UCAS announce university application 'late surge'
However, numbers remain down on previous years. By November of 2011, figures showed a near 13% drop in total admissions. The figures, correct up until December 2011, show that there is still a 6.4% reduction in like-for-like admissions from the previous year.
It is not only recent college-leavers contributing to the declining figures; students from outside of Britain, as well as mature students within the British Isles, are applying in reduced amounts.
Though Universities UK chief Nicola Dandridge remarked that "it is reassuring to see that the numbers of applications are recovering", she also issued the warning that "we will need to look closely at the January figures to see how they compare to last year, and specifically whether any particular groups of applicants have been affected by the changes to the funding system."
