A-level results: students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland await grades – latest news
More expected to get their first choice of university place as institutions scramble to make up for a fall in overseas students
The education secretary has said she will not oversee a “two-tier system” in education and ensure youngsters have good options to pursue technical and vocational routes and university.
Asked earlier in the week if there was a danger of an anti-university rhetoric being spun and putting young people off pursuing higher education, Lucy Powell told PA:
I’m absolutely clear I’m not going to be overseeing some kind of two-tier system in education.
This is about having high standards across the piece, high aspirations, high expectations.
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