No more - Advance Highers for mature students- cuts. discrimination. disgrace

Afcourse you dont. But what in the situation when there is 500 people and all of them have four A from highers. And the uni offers only 100 places on a course. How do you think if you were the 501 but with advance highers who would have a better chance.

There is no place in Scotlend where a mature student would be able to do advance highers next year.
Because of governments pressure to increase pass rates.Advance highers and highers decreases the pass rate greatly. No one told me its about the money.

Discrimination of mature students.
How can I compete with school leaver or students from rest of the UK.


I passed 2 highers last year and this year I am also doing 2 highers and now I cant continue and will lose 2 years of my life. I cant do HNC or NHD because I have to work to support myself and they are full time.

HNC/HND is worthles because you often need not only A but 95 % to be considered and it is the college exam

I'm in 6th year just now and currently doing 3 advanced highers. Honestly, the advanced higher is overrated: the qualification is, in my experience, largely just a glorified higher.

Maybe there isn't a demand for AHs in colleges - I looked at going to college instead of 6th year and there was limited choice and not all colleges offered them anyway and that was a number of years back now.
What is wrong with GCU and Stirling? I clearly said they were just in the first few results when I googled it. Pretty sure other universities are the same.
Do you know that 500 people apply for that one course?

AHs can be a way of meeting entry requirements, but since there are other ways of doing so which are more widely available it is not discriminatory. Different uni applications work differently, but generally your personal statement and stuff is what is important in distinguishing from other people if you meet the entrance requirements.

A levels are just above Highers, below or the same level as AH in level.

you can do a HNC part time.

HNC's are not worthless i know two guys who did HNC and got accepted to Glasgow and Strathclyde University.

you only need a B to get into most Universities.

You guys dont get it. Its not about how I can get in to uni.
Its not fair that this is happening.It happens because of the wrong reasons. That decision was made 2 weeks ago, just like that. WITHOUT A WARNING (in my college). If I knew, then I would be doing AHs this year from the subjects I need and I would do the rest of my highers required next year.

There is no transition period like with the appeals for higher exams. There was at least 2 years warning or something.

When the demand is to low it means there is not enough students but you can tell that in august not i February.

You guys dont get it. Its not about how I can get in to uni.
Its not fair that this is happening.It happens because of the wrong reasons. That decision was made 2 weeks ago, just like that. WITHOUT A WARNING (in my college). If I knew, then I would be doing AHs this year from the subjects I need and I would do the rest of my highers required next year.

There is no transition period like with the appeals for higher exams. There was at least 2 years warning or something.

When the demand is to low it means there is not enough students but you can tell that in august not i February.

The bottom line is, that you don't need advanced highers to get into university in Scotland! Do more highers next year! Five this year and four next year or something like that is ideal.


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agree i dont know why hekke is so hooked up on Advanced Highers.