Nottingham University has joined the small but growing number of universities pledging to stop making unconditional offers, putting others under pressure to follow suit.
Nottingham, where 11 per cent of offers to students last year were unconditional, said that the practice had “had its day” and free passes to university were so prevalent that they no longer worked as a recruitment tool. One in three university applicants received at least one unconditional offer in 2017-18.
Nottingham has been one of the most active among the elite Russell Group universities in handing out free offers. At most others, such as Bristol and Durham, less than 1 per cent of offers are unconditional.
Nottingham denied that the admission policy change was prompted by today’s release of the