Chaos expected for U.K. university places, says UCAS

More than 200,000 university applicants in Britain will fail to get places this year, the head of the admissions service said in an interview with the Independent newspaper published on Monday.
Chief executive of Ucas Mary Curnock Cook said a "carbon copy" of last year's confusion, when 210,000 youngsters did not get places, is inevitable.
This year has seen record interest from teenagers ahead of increasing tuition fees next year, the newspaper said, citing the University and College Admissions Service (Ucas).
The number of candidates who fail to get into university is expected to rise when results are published in two weeks, which would repeat last summer's scramble following the publication of A-level results in August.
Disappointed teenagers will have to accept that their applications were just "not strong enough," Curnock Cook told the newspaper.
Applications have increased by 1.4% (9,000) but the number of university places available remains about the same.
Curnock Cook said that those who fail to find a place on A-level day will be faced with two choices: "One is to go into clearing and the other is to re-apply next year." Last year, 50,000 students found places during the clearing process.