Details of English student number controls unveiled

The SNP really don't do irony do they? They've capped Scottish and EU places for years and now start whingeing when England does the same (although much less rigorously given the 6.5% permitted increase)

There also needs to be a cap on capital expenditure at most individual Universities. Total post graduate and undergraduate numbers have passed the point of diminishing returns on investment. We need to work hard to eliminate excess capacity at individual sites by making it easier for students to transfer to similar / different courses at different institutions during clearing in the short term. In the longer term the excess capacity should be removed by cuts at those institutions that have got their subject balance wrong.