ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the degree patterns of students from comprehensive schools, comparing them, first, to all university entrants for the year 1968-9, and, second, integrating the pattern of degree choice taken by the three groups within the survey related to the total entry to university for that year. It also examines the possible causal links between A-Level combinations and subsequent degree courses. The chapter focuses on the implications for universities of the mixed-subject student upon patterns of degree courses. The effects at university level are even more dramatic when examined in the light of the mixed-subject student. However, by far the most significant development has been the freeing of the curricular log jam that has long characterized restricted academic sixth forms. The chapter also looks at the effect of different patterns of school organization more especially the influence of the open sixth form, on student choice of subject at GCE levels and at university.
