‘You’ve accepted an offer for teacher training’ - even if you didn’t apply, Ucas says

Ucas says sorry to students after mass email confusion
7th November 2017, 5:50pm

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‘You’ve accepted an offer for teacher training’ - even if you didn’t apply, Ucas says

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Every sixth-former who has applied to study at university next year was today congratulated by Ucas for accepting a place on a teacher-training programme - regardless of the course they hope to study.

Ucas sent the message to more than 61,000 applicants to non-teaching undergraduate courses, before apologising after the error was discovered, and emailing an apology shortly afterwards.

This was not before students shared their experiences on social media.

Just got an email from ucas saying I’ve accepted a teacher training offer never even applied for it but woohooo haha

- Alisha (@Alishaa_I) November 7, 2017

The Ucas social media team was able to allay some fears, and wish students’ good luck with whatever course they had chosen.

Thank God you gave me a heart attack

- Hannah (@hanmowbray) November 7, 2017

 

I was like noooooo I can’t teach . Kids in mass give me bad head

- Dave (@DaveDavetron) November 7, 2017


I WAS SO SCARED WHEN I SAW IT

- rospooky (@rosiescho) November 7, 2017


okay panic over I’ll guess I’ll stop thinking about all the hypothetical kid’s lives I’d change pic.twitter.com/zp6m1TvyuQ

- laganja apologist (@emomums) November 7, 2017


Me and my friends were who shocked! My chem teacher quoted ‘they’re desperate for teachers then’

- Alisha (@Alishaa_I) November 7, 2017

 

Applicants have been assured that their original applications have not been affected in any way.

Helen Thorne, director of external relations at Ucas, said: “This morning, we sent out an email to university applicants in error advising them that they’d accepted an offer for teacher training. The mistake was picked up quickly by our customer experience and marketing team and an email apology was sent out to all those affected shortly after.

“We would like to reassure university applicants that their applications have not been affected in any way by this. Anyone who was sent this message who has not applied to become a teacher should simply ignore it.”

The deadline for any applications to study medicine, dentistry or veterinary science at any university or to study at Oxford or Cambridge universities was 15 October 2017.

The deadline for most other applications is 15 January 2018.

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