Barely literate students with no GCSEs are being accepted onto university courses and being given thousands of pounds in taxpayer cash they will never pay back.
As hundreds of thousands of first-year undergraduates arrive in halls across the country this week, a Mail investigation has uncovered serious abuses of the higher education system.
Whistleblowers have told how courses are accepting students with such poor English that they cannot spell simple words, and who fail to attend classes as soon as they receive their first £4,000 maintenance loan and council tax exemption.
One source at a well-known university said they have seen instances of ‘whole families’ including elderly parents and grandparents enrolling on £9,250-a-year courses after being recruited by staff offering cash bonuses for new students.
FA second academic claimed that one of their students ‘who could barely speak English’ openly discussed how he was using…
