{"id":120905,"date":"2019-11-28T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/28\/best-time-ever-school-leavers-have-pick-of-university-courses-says-ucas\/"},"modified":"2019-11-28T01:01:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T00:01:22","slug":"best-time-ever-school-leavers-have-pick-of-university-courses-says-ucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=120905","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Best time ever&#039;: school-leavers have pick of university courses, says Ucas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competition is fierce between institutions recruiting from shrinking pool of 18-year-oldsToday\u2019s school-leavers are enjoying \u201cthe best time ever\u201d to take their pick of university courses, thanks to fierce competition between institutions recruiting from a shrinking pool of 18-year-olds, according to the UK\u2019s university admissions administrator.Ucas, which operates the admissions process for undergraduate courses, said nearly 98% of applicants received offers of a place to study for a degree this year, and that could be even higher next year as the demographic dip among British school-leavers reaches its lowest point. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2019\/nov\/28\/best-time-ever-school-leavers-have-pick-of-university-courses-says-ucas\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Best time ever&#039;: school-leavers have pick of university courses, says Ucas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competition is fierce between institutions recruiting from shrinking pool of 18-year-oldsToday\u2019s school-leavers are enjoying \u201cthe best time ever\u201d to take their pick of university courses, thanks to fierce competition between institutions recruiting from a shrinking pool of 18-year-olds, according to the UK\u2019s university admissions administrator.Ucas, which operates the admissions process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}