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  Shortage of university places leaves students disappointed

  14 Sep 2010: Clearing is all but over two weeks early and 150,000 young university applicants are out in the cold. What will they do now? And who do they blame?

• Risky application strategy cost students university places, says clearing chief

  4 Sep 2010: Bad advice or unrealistic goals meant thousands of degree hopefuls had no margin for error in their A-level grades

• Clearing centres feel the squeeze on A-level results day

  23 Aug 2010:

  Record demand for university places means Greenwich is attracting better qualified students

• Clearing 2010: 28% of students still seeking university places

  23 Aug 2010: Admissions service Ucas said 187,488 university hopefuls are in clearing and that more than 150,000 would be turned away

• Three years dossing at university? It's the only way to train for life

  22 Aug 2010: David Mitchell: The news that students are being pushed towards part-time degrees depresses the hell out of me

• A broader picture of higher education and social mobility

  21 Aug 2010: Letters: Individuals whose qualifications meet the requirements for higher education are urged to think flexibly about what kind of learning experience best suits them, instead of focusing on an outmoded image of the 'elite'

• Clearing 2010: six students scrambling for each university place

  20 Aug 2010:

  Switchboards jammed as record number of applicants seek places through clearing

• A-Level results: Got the visa. Can't go

  20 Aug 2010: Editorial: There is an assembly-line feel to contemporary British education, but yesterday it faltered, with a clogged clearing system likely to leave 80,000 qualified students without a university place

• A picture of failure

  20 Aug 2010: Letters: In the interests of balance, all newspapers should be legally obliged to publish a full page of photos of students who have achieved dreadful exam results

• A-level results 2010: sick with worry or ready to party, students take stock

  19 Aug 2010:

  Some got the grades they needed; the rest face clearing or resits. Five pupils from the class of 2010 tell their stories

• A-level results 2010: A*s all round at Osborne's old school

  19 Aug 2010:

  • Record results at St Paul's amid complaints over 'cheap' top grade
  • Grimsby's Havelock Academy looks forward to the baccalaureate

• Clearing central, where the phones are never silent

  19 Aug 2010: 'Call waiting' was a constant state for staff at Ucas headquarters

• A-levels results 2010: does the A* add up?

  Video (3min 22sec), 19 Aug 2010:

  Helen Pidd visits St Paul's School in London to find out if the new A* grade - over 90% - gets top marks. (Correction: This video has been edited to remove comments by a contributor who was not a pupil at St Paul's)

• A-level results 2010: No degree course? Then try volunteering, says minister

  19 Aug 2010: Universities minister urges students disappointed in clearing to enhance their CVs and apply to less competitive institutions

• In clearing? Try Manchester, York ... or Malaysia

  19 Aug 2010: With UCAS warning of a lack of clearing spaces following today's A-level results, how about studying in the Far East?

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