The British organization that processes college and university applications has switched to a new computer system, and the result has been “a summer of chaos,” according to The Guardian.
College admissions officers say Britain’s Universities and Colleges Admissions Service accidentally sent them computer files that erased their existing records. According to The Guardian, those glitches delayed the institutions’ efforts to plan for Clearing, a process that finds undergraduate vacancies for students who did not meet their projected A-level grades.
An official with the admissions service said the computer problems had been overstated and were, in fact, just “a minor hiccup.” —Brock Read
