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University challenge: the next education crisis

Many institutions face the fight of their lives

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

On the insistence of university authorities, freshers’ week will be an online affair this year. But if this autumn is not much fun for students, it will be a lot less fun still for university staff whose admissions system has just been thrown into turmoil by the A-level results debacle.

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