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Britain / 2 July 2020
Temporary ban on universities offering applicants 'conditional unconditional' offers
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CONTROVERSIAL “conditional unconditional” university offers will be banned until September 2021 under new rules revealed today by an education regulator.

Such offers give students a place regardless of their A-level grades on condition they make the university their firm first choice.

But now the Office for Students (OfS) is prohibiting any university from giving out such offers.

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