14,087 miss out on college places

MORE than 14,000 students have missed out on college places after a rise in the points required for many popular courses.

The applicants will have to wait another two weeks before they discover if they will be offered the courses they hoped for.

The Central Applications Office (CAO) will today make at least one offer of a college place to 47,660 of the 65,791 people who applied for degree, diploma and certificate courses this year.