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A Ukrainian refugee, a firefighter and triplets are among the students reacting to their results.
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The most selective universities have seen the biggest rise in students accepted onto their courses for 2026.
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Top grades and students going to university are on the up, but technical subjects are also becoming more popular.
Read SummaryA Ukrainian refugee, a firefighter and triplets are among the students reacting to their results.
Read SummaryThe most selective universities have seen the biggest rise in students accepted onto their courses for 2026.
Read SummaryTop grades and students going to university are on the up, but technical subjects are also becoming more popular.
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Since 2022, the number of A-levels taken in French, German and Spanish has fallen from 19,820 to 17,616
For sixth formers in Halifax, discovering their grades means a chance to celebrate and plan for the futureThere are few days that teenagers dread more than A-level results day, where students learn how the last two years of their lives will shape their futures, communicated through a few letters in...
Northern Ireland best performing with 30.7% of grades being As and A*s but Wales and England close behindSixth-formers have basked in a summer of record-breaking exam results in academic and vocational subjects, allowing more than a quarter of a million 18-year-olds to go on to higher education.Stud...
Teenagers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their exam results on Thursday
Results day comes amid a crisis in the number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet)
More expected to get their first choice of university place as institutions scramble to make up for a fall in overseas studentsThe 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...
The UK is far from equality in academia or society. You don’t need a Cambridge degree to see that Arday’s story is being used to stop any progress in its tracksIn 1987, a college at the University of Cambridge considered offering a prestigious position to a black man in what would be the first appoi...
Another record number of students are expected to secure a place at their first choice of university.
Fellow pupils at his primary school have challenged Cambridge academic’s story, though others support itThe story of Jason Arday’s extraordinary rise to becoming the youngest black professor in the history of the University of Cambridge is all the more remarkable for one claim: that he did not learn...
T-levels are equivalent to three A-levels, and focus on practical rather than academic subjects.
Hundreds of thousands of students do the vocational qualifications known as BTecs every year.
Cambridge’s youngest Black professor has resigned. But the discourse around his departure is rooted in its own distorted reality• Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereFew stories have dominated discourse and headlines like that of Jason Arday. The University of Cambridge prof...