It seems, from a report in the Guardian today that almost all of the best places in our top universities are already gone and that is just a week or so after the highers and "A" grades have been awarded to the brightest of our pupils.

If this story is true then there has to be something wrong with our university clearing system as if all the places are already gone there is going to be a lot of bright sixth formers that are going to lose out on university places and a chance of a decent future.

Some have been suggesting that the top qualifications at our high schools are now just too easy to get as the exams have been dumbed down to make the government pass-figures look good. I don't know about that but it certainly seems the case that there are now more secondary school graduates looking for university places than there are places to give them.

See this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/aug/21/university-places-go-record-time

What do you good peeps think ?