All universities should just agree to admit all young people who they have made conditional offers to, based on their teacher-predicted grades. (The idea they can reliably select the best candidates on the basis of a UCAS form or an interview is anyway a bit of a myth.)

It would do absolutely no damage to the system whatsoever and would be right and fair for a cohort of young people who have already been royally screwed over by the pandemic.

This piecemeal uni-by-uni approach is very unfair as it means a young person's chance of making their uni if their results have been downgraded is arbitrary, and it is understandably causing awful anxiety for young people.

(Sure, this will throw up difficult practical issues. But it is something govt & whole sector must work on in partnership. This is something that needs to happen, and the system needs to work around it.)