14,000 students turn down first round offers

ALMOST 14,000 students did not take up a college place after the first round CAO offers.

Less than a quarter of nursing places have been accepted, despite more than 1,700 applicants receiving more than one offer of a course.

The low take-up of degree, diploma and certificate courses is not good news for the 18,500 CAO applicants who did not receive any offer in last week’s first round.