Lack of applicants for 10% of courses

More than one in 10 college courses did not have enough applicants to fill all their places in this week’s first round of CAO offers.

More than 50 honours (level 8) degrees and more than 100 ordinary degree and higher certificate (levels 7 and 6) courses opened for fresh applications on the CAO website yesterday.

Almost 50,000 people were offered places on Monday morning and over 22,000 were made online the same day.