{"id":736464,"date":"2026-08-13T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736464\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:10:10","slug":"students-opening-their-a-level-t-level-and-btec-results-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736464\/","title":{"rendered":"Students opening their A-level, T-level and BTec results – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Record number secure first-choice university placepublished at 08:16 BST<\/p>\n

08:16 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Hazel Shearing
Education correspondent<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve just heard from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas), which says a record number of UK 18-year-olds have secured a place at their first choice of university.<\/p>\n

Overall 228,990 18-year-olds have been accepted into their firm choice.<\/p>\n

That’s an increase from last year in terms of raw numbers. <\/p>\n

But there’s been a rise in the number of 18-year-olds in the UK, and the actual percentage of 18-year-old offer-holders who got into their first choice has fallen – from 82% to 79%.<\/p>\n

Dr Jo Saxton, chief executive of Ucas, just told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that there were around 27,000 courses available in clearing. <\/p>\n

“For those applicants who might be tearing open their results
\nand not quite be getting what they hoped for, they can absolutely still go to
\nuniversity in the autumn if that\u2019s what they would like to do,” she says.<\/p>\n

“There is lots
\nand lots of choice.”<\/p>\n

She stressed that clearing is not just for people who didn’t get the grades they needed to take up an offer – it is also used by applicants who want to “trade up” or change their mind and live closer to home, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record number secure first-choice university placepublished at 08:16 BST 08:16 BST Hazel ShearingEducation correspondent We\u2019ve just heard from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}