Some 1,700 school-leavers entered higher education this year along with 64,800 21 to 24-year-olds, according to data published this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. It marks the recovery of full-time undergraduate numbers among the older age group to the same level as before tuition fees were introduced.
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