Increasing numbers of students are using post-qualification admissions for courses still on offer.

Non-UK students now account for more than 485,000 of the 2.38 million higher education students at UK universities.

Teachers face an “almost impossible task” in fairly awarding A-level and GCSE grades in place of exams during the pandemic.

University students in England could be confined to their halls of residence and barred from going to their family homes.