45,000 college places snapped up through CAO

Almost 45,000 college places have been snapped up by students through the CAO after the latest round of offers closed for acceptances last night.

The majority of places offered eight days ago have been taken up by the 50,000 applicants who received them. The CAO said it registered 37,171 acceptances, most of them online, by the teatime deadline.

The figure is almost 500 more than this time last year, but the 43 colleges which use the CAO’s services have also offered around 500 more places than in 2011.