Warwick student bids plummet

APPLICATIONS to the University of Warwick have plummeted by 14 per cent, figures have revealed.

The drop for September’s intake was expected with a spokesman putting it down to an increase in the required grades needed on every course, bar one.

Tuition fees will shoot up to £9,000 per year at sites across the country - including Warwick - prompting large-scale falls in student numbers.

The university remains the highest-achieving in the Midlands and regularly in the top ten in the country.

Warwick spokesman Peter Dunn said: "It gets harder and harder to choose students so we deliberately put up our grades for next year. Doing that has obviously put off the least bright students."

We reported last month how Coventry University, which is offering a tiered pricing structure, had seen a rise of nearly two per cent.