Under a new policy, quotas have been scrapped for applicants who score two grade As and a B at A-level in an attempt to allow more bright pupils get on the best courses.
Students who found out last week that their grades were higher than predicted were allowed to “trade up” to a place at a more prestigious course.
But as of Friday, only 353 people had been awarded places on the “adjustment” scheme.
Leading higher education institutions, including Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and the London School of Economics, were said to have turned down potential applicants.
Meanwhile a prominent academic and politician has called for new policies to help the career chances of young people who are not suited to current degree courses.
Tristram Hunt, the Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central who teaches history at Queen Mary, University of London, wrote in a Sunday newspaper: “No one wants to return to the funding and quality hierarchies between the pre-1992 polytechnics and universities.
“But if we are serious about true equality between vocational and academic education then a new plan for some form of polytechnic-style capacity is needed.
“In schools, the cultural tide is turning with a renewed focus on practical and apprenticeship skills, so why not at higher level?”
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