Accordingly, the reality is that the results to be published on 16 August, can only embrace those students who have taken 3 AS units in those centres (the 75%) which answered in the affirmative regarding cashing in at the examination entry stage.

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The current undergraduate finance model, where students borrow to study for three years in a UK institution, does not provide for a future in which students might want to take course units from a range of universities, both in the UK and abroad.

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Some Cambridge colleges have used students' actual marks from their A2 units - the second part of the A-level.

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Serafim, an English teacher, lost four students in the blaze, and others are in intensive care units.

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At present students can receive a certificate for successfully following courses, but they have not counted as units towards a degree.

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