Upfront University Fee Paying - I have the grades/money so give me a place
The announcement concerning the availability of so called extra places in popular university courses is naturally a method to ensure that those people who could be excluded due to possible diversity/mix requirements that could be imposed on universities can be circumvented to some extent by those students who I would assume would still need to get the grades as any other but has access to full tuition fee funds (£20k instead of £9k) and can pay it up front due to either wealthy parents or those who have made significant savings or has connections to trusts/businesses who are willing to sponsor (with possible tax advantages) including intern availability that means that they go to a good/top university but deprives probably those without that funding availability to go to somewhere like Oxford/Cambriged/London/Durham etc.