Roland Perry wrote:

The market is shifting these days for all manner of reasons such that I
suspect most would now be caught for everything from four year courses to
those taking a year out (now more for raising finances than anything else)
to a growth in the mature and postgraduate market.

I'd add "taking five years to GCSE" onto that as well.

It's two - or are you including every year from the start of secondary?

But remember that my original calculation required *at least one* of the
three 'delay factors' for a student to be 21 in their final year, and
according to Colin, to qualify to vote your birthday would have to be
before October, so even then most students wouldn't be eligible.

Ah - were students going off to uni at a younger age then? The standard
entry these days is 18 or higher.

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