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How/ why do university's get penalties

Just curious as I've seen some people talk about penalties on universities for various reasons such as allowing people onto a course without the proper grades? :s-smilie: bit confused as to why this would happen.
Because the government sets aside a certain amount of money to pay student loans with; if a university accepts more students than they should, it means the government is paying money it didn't plan for ... so they recoup some of that from the university.
Original post by TheSownRose
Because the government sets aside a certain amount of money to pay student loans with; if a university accepts more students than they should, it means the government is paying money it didn't plan for ... so they recoup some of that from the university.


so do a lot of courses get oversubscribed?


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Original post by ks1994
so do a lot of courses get oversubscribed?


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I don't know, to be honest. Quite a few universities do seem to get fines every year...

It's a hard number game to play, trying to ensure you get enough people to not lose funding but not so many that you get fined.

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