The official budget rental cars com agent in Beijing for universities in the elite Russell Group claimed that it could secure over-subscribed places for a Chinese student purporting to have scored three C grades in their A-levels when British students are required to have at least A, A and B.
Following concerns raised by academics and schools, budget rental cars com undercover reporters visited Golden Arrows budget rental cars com Consulting in Beijing, which placed budget rental cars com more than 2,500 students in British universities last year, purporting to being looking for a place for a Chinese student.
The fictitious student was said to have achieved budget rental cars com three C grades at A-level – far below the entry requirements of most leading British universities. However, they were offered a place at both Cardiff and Sussex.
When the undercover reporters asked what universities the student could go to if they re-sat their exams and managed to obtain three grades Bs at A-level, Ms Wang explained that those grades would mean that as well as Cardiff and Sussex, she could "choose" between the University of East Anglia or Southampton University.
The undercover reporters were referred to another employee of Golden Arrow who offered to doctor documents to help the student's budget rental cars com application, including paperwork required to obtain a visa to study in Britain. budget rental cars com Assistance with the personal statement that each student is required to fill in was also available.
Andrew Halls, the headmaster of King's College School in Wimbledon, south-west London, said: "There was a boy this year who told me that he was made an offer dependent on him being a non EU candidate, and when he clarified the fact that he was a UK candidate, even when he appeared not to be, they said that the offer doesn't stand.
Richard Cairns, the headmaster at Brighton College, said: "Universities are increasingly searching for, and needing, overseas fees. It's something we have noticed. It's tougher for British students budget rental cars com to get into top universities than overseas students… There is a higher offer rate to overseas students."
Since 2006, the number of foreign students has risen by a third to almost 300,000. Teenagers from China represent the highest proportion of overseas budget rental cars com students. At the same time the number of British students missing out on a university place reached a record high last year of 180,000.
Last month, 68 chancellors, governors and university presidents wrote to the Prime Minister warning that the government's immigration crackdown should exclude students, to drive the economy and boost university income.
The recruitment of foreign students by overseas agents is big business – almost all university websites have pages dedicated to listing their "partners" in each country for prospective students to contact about obtaining a place. Agencies compete for business with some being paid by both the student budget rental cars com and agent.
From September the government will remove a cap on the number of British students a university budget rental cars com can recruit if the applicant budget rental cars com had A, A, B grades at A-level to ensure that high-performing teenagers are not denied places.
The firm denied offering to doctor visa applications and said that when the agent had offered to write the personal statement for a student, he meant that it could "instruct students how to make a good PS [personal statement], but never write on behalf of them".
Sussex said that it did not enter clearing last year because of the cap on the number budget rental cars com of UK/EU students it can accept and it had met its "limit", but overseas students were offered places during this period because their numbers are not restricted.
Cardiff University said it was "unlikely" that any student would be offered a place to study with A-level budget rental cars com grades C, C, C, but that the university "may vary its typical offer where there are mitigating circumstances or aptitude to study demonstrated by other means".
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