NCH ditches A-level offers for 2014

New College of the Humanities is the Elite 'oxbridge alternative' university in the title of this article http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/elite-oxbridge-alternative-university-to-stop-basing-admissions-on-alevel-results-due-to-concerns-over-standards-9117409.html

I wonder if it's using Birmingham's unconditional offers as cover for a barrel scraping exercise to get it's £18,000pa enrolment up?
surely A levels haven't suddenly got worse over the last year, in fact I thought the evidence was that they were starting to get tougher if anything.

I completely forgot about NCH. I remember a few threads on it a few years ago here, before it admitted its first students, but forgot about it until I read this thread. Certainly, have never heard anyone here discussing it as an Oxbridge alternative. Or, in fact, an alternative to anything at all. So it might well be an effort to entice more into paying the £18,000 fees.

I completely forgot about NCH. I remember a few threads on it a few years ago here, before it admitted its first students, but forgot about it until I read this thread. Certainly, have never heard anyone here discussing it as an Oxbridge alternative. Or, in fact, an alternative to anything at all. So it might well be an effort to entice more into paying the £18,000 fees.