In the scramble to secure students amid fierce competition from rival institutions, universities are awarding tens of thousands of offers to students regardless of what results they obtain.
Since 2014,
the number of unconditional places handed out to sixth form pupils has surged from 2,985 to 51,615, up by more than 1,600 percent.
Of the 259,230 sixth form students who applied to university this year,
nearly one in five received an unconditional offer.
The new figures also show that
students predicted to get Cs are twice as likely to receive an unconditional offer as those with straight A*s.
While such offers were traditionally awarded to exceptional candidates, in recent years, they have been awarded in increasing numbers.
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