Providing her ministerial viewpoint, Donelan explained to the presenter: “Well I think that’s an academic question. A student that would have applied with results last year have already been awarded their place.”
As the Universities Minister tried to continue, the presenter tried to jump in as the conversation turned heated.
Silencing Munchetty, the government official told her interviewer: “Well let’s not talk down the results of this year.”
The broadcaster hit back as she replied: “I’m certainly not doing that, I’m asking how fair the system is, and how well placed these students who have 45 percent higher grades in A* and A’s, how fair this system is going to be for them and for those who received those grades before.”
