Number of students starting university over to levels before tuition fees raised

Recuperation in UK student numbers suggests increase in fees to £9,000 has not lessened ravenousness for full-time higher education 

As freshers' week gets under route across the nation, new figures show that the amount of students acknowledged to study at UK universities has come back to the levels before tuition fees were raised to £9,000. 

The recuperation in student numbers for the 2013 scholarly year suggests that the increase in fees has done small or nothing to dull the ravenousness for full-time higher education in those leaving school. 

Information published by Ucas, the university admissions clearing house, shows that four weeks after A-level results were published, the amount of UK and EU students conceded to study for college degrees stands at 446,000 for the 2013-14 scholarly year – a 9% rise on the previous year. 

In 2012-13 – the year that the greatest level of tuition fees rose from £3,290 to £9,000 – UK student applications and acceptances plunged to 408,000, in the wake of having risen to 465,000 the year before as students rushed to prevail over the imposition of the higher charge. 

David Willetts, the universities minister, respected the recuperation: "This latest Ucas information shows that acceptances have skiped back. This year more students are getting their first-decision university than any other time before." 

One demographic aggregation that hasn't skiped back, then again, is Scots studying at English universities, who have turned into a vanishing breed. The figures suggest that the £9,000 expense continues to keep Scots far from English universities, with just 1,540 acknowledged applications for undergrad study this year. 

The four-year running normal of UK acceptances is presently 440,000, with the latest figures slightly above normal, despite a decrease in the amount of school-leavers in the nation in general. 

Nicola Dandridge, CEO of the Universities UK campaigning aggregation, said: "It is great news to see an increase in acceptances contrasted with last year. It shows that applicants are continuing to recognise the quality of an university education. During a period when the 18-year-old population aggregate, the largest aggregation of applicants, has been shrinking, this is also significant." 

Information from 2011-12 shows that 49.3% of junior individuals in England were in higher education, and the long-term objective of half could soon be reached. 

Most of the variation happened in applications to universities in England, where acceptances went from 394,760 in 2011 to 340,550 in 2012 before moving to 375,120 in 2013. In Scotland, where domestic students are not charged tuition fees, acceptances have remained unaltered in the course of recent years at around 27,000. 

The recuperation was most stamped in Northern Ireland and England, where acknowledged applications rose by 10%, while acceptances in Wales rose by 5% and Scotland by 2%. 

The Ucas figures also showed a small increase in the amount of students being acknowledged by universities in England with no less than two As and a B review at A-level or comparable. 

In general, 110,000 students were acknowledged with AAB grades or higher – a boon for universities that selected them since students with such high grades don't number under the government's cap on numbers for each institution.