Heading towards 2012

The student-demand driven world of 2012 is just around the corner. Conor King ponders what role there will be, if any, for tertiary admissions centres.ents selecting courses. TACs can usefully facilitate this, primarily through being a single, if state-focused, point of information and processing rather than through juggling preference lists. However, options for applications direct to universities to receive early offers will be more common. Again, the TACs could facilitate this, but they would have to move away from provision of a common service, with hard deadlines, now characteristic of their operations.