[Original article - Anthea Lipsett The Guardian, Tuesday 30 June 2009 Article history]
"Who'd be a school-leaver this year? A squeeze on jobs, apprenticeships and university places as a result of the recession spells hard times. Economists predict there will be more than 1 million unemployed under-25s by September, and in just over a month hundreds of thousands of teenagers getting their A-level results will face the toughest battle for a university place in years.
The number of 18-year-olds - who still make up around 80% of university applicants - in the population will peak at around 800,000 in 2009. And record numbers of university applications - by March they had risen by 8% on last year - have coincided with a government-imposed cap on the number of extra students universities can take on this year.
The result? Fewer options to pick up a place through the Clearing process in August, and more people vying for precious higher education places."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/30/recession-university-places
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