Hundreds make new applications for courses

Hundreds of people have been making new applications to college courses as limited numbers of remaining places will be offered in the next few weeks.

Just over 3,200 people got an offer from the CAO yesterday, but high uptake after last week’s main offers stage left many courses already full, particularly on high-demand science and engineering degrees.

This has left nearly 17,300 of this year’s 76,073 applicants without a place at college through the CAO. For those who got good news yesterday, almost 1,030 online acceptances were recorded by 5pm.