Focus on Education

UCAS published the university application figures for the 2018 cycle earlier this week and these show that, while the proportion of eighteen year olds applying for university through UCAS has risen, the absolute number of applicants has fallen by two point six per cent as a result of a smaller number of eighteen year olds compared with last year. The data also revealed that the gap between female and male applicants is large and growing. Forty-four point three per cent of female eighteen year olds applied to university compared with just thirty-one point eight per cent of males. UCAS said that if demand was equal between the sexes thirty-six thousand more men would have applied to university. Please click here to read more about this year’s application cycle on the UCAS website.