EDUCATION & SCHOOLS
• While the UK national average indicators for the highest grades have dropped this year, students from King’s College schools, based in Worcestershire and Madrid, Alicante and Murcia in Spain, have have surpassed those percentages, with 22.42 per cent achieved an A*, 44.26 per cent an A*-A and a pass rate of 97.5 per cent.
IGCSES AND INTERNATIONAL A LEVELS IGCSEs are an internationally recognised qualification and are taken in more than 120 countries around the world. While they are no longer recognised in the UK government’s performance tables, as they are now seen as easier than the reformed GCSEs, they remain popular with independent schools. The number of entries for the 2019 Cambridge International
AS & A Level qualifications has grown by seven per cent, while the number of entries for IGCSEs has also risen by four per cent. Globally, the most popular AS & A Level subjects are Maths, Physics and Chemistry, while the most popular IGCSEs are Maths, Physics and First Language English. Christine Özden, chief executive officer for Cambridge
International, says, “This year... we have seen growth in entries across all of our qualifications. I am particularly pleased to see so
British School of the Netherlands, GCSE results day
many new schools joining us this year and now able to offer our wide variety of qualifications and syllabuses across the Cambridge Pathway to their students.”
IB DIPLOMA SEES A GLOBAL INCREASE The IB is a broad, internationally recognised qualification that lends itself to continuing in higher education at universities around the world. It’s taught in 153 countries and, owing to its transferable curriculum, it is a popular choice for globally mobile families. This year, more than 169,000 students around the world celebrated receiving their IB diploma results and join more than 1.85 million graduates, which marks a two per cent increase on last year. Dr Siva Kumari, IB director general, explains the benefits of the
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