Universities will be banned from offering places to year 12 students before September in the year they finish school, over concerns that competition to lock in early enrolments is causing kids to not try as hard and get worse results than they otherwise would.
Education Minister Jason Clare and his state and territory counterparts wrote to university vice-chancellors on Tuesday saying early offers were having a negative effect on “attendance, application and results”.
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