Sector leaders have called for the UK government to provide support for universities, as some higher education institutions struggled to accommodate record numbers of students following a leap in top A-level marks. Health courses were heavily oversubscribed on Wednesday after mass grade inflation resulted in a squeeze on the most competitive degrees. Jane Harrington, vice-chancellor of Greenwich University, said her biggest concern was a shortage of medical and nursing placements, adding that the government and the NHS should co-ordinate to increase training opportunities for young people in the long term.
