With A-level results due to be released in under a week, some universities are announcing the difficult news that they have no clearing spaces at all according to the BBC.

Students who fail to get into their first choice of university but still have good A-level grades enter clearing, which matches them to a university with places remaining. Many universities have already announced that they will not enter clearing, with others stating reduced figures – some even as low as 20.

With the number of university applications up 12% this year compared to last, the reports that universities are already full means that there could be thousands of students left disappointed.

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