Ms Izzy Fitzpatrick:

-----because it is not a requirement in the majority of UK universities. In fact, I have not heard of a single UK university that asks for four A-levels. It is a unique situation in that only students applying to the South need to undertake that fourth A-level, and it is becoming increasingly uncommon to do so, even at AS level.

As for the language requirement, as I said in my opening statement, a language is not taken by many students and they are not even aware that this rules out the South as an option. It is not a requirement in the North to take a language at GCSE level and there is not the same infrastructural push around language that is seen in the Republic of Ireland. Students are failing to understand this requirement and that is why we are saying that it should not be there, as students are not even aware to begin with.