Almost a quarter of a million people applying for university this year are going to miss out on a place, university leaders are forecasting.

Spending cuts have reduced extra university places at a time when there has been a huge surge in demand.

The number of applicants not getting a place will have doubled in two years.

Professor David Green, vice-chancellor of the University of Worcester, says it will mean thousands of “unnecessarily blighted lives”.

With the spending cuts stopping university expansion, this summer will see an unprecedented number of applicants failing to get a place on a degree course. BBC.

The only big thing in Cameron’s society is the amount of money we’re paying those very financiers who broke the banks. Cutting education budgets is grossly short sighted – if we’re to dig ourselves out of this financial hole we need to invest in the workers of the future – or do the Tories prefer us to be low-paid, low-achieving, exploited and compliant to any hare-brained scheme they dream up – this is madness.