Surge in points required to access courses

Points for more than 200 college courses have risen by 25 points this year, with science, computing, and maths accounting for almost a quarter of those.

Points for one in three courses offered by the Central Applications Office this morning have dropped.

The extra 25 points given to almost 11,000 higher-level maths students appear to have had some impact on the minimum entry standards for many of the 50,000 students being offered places this morning.