Students from Clifton College
“ While many will still have their sights set on university, alternative career routes, like apprenticeships, shouldn’t be ruled out. Fostering both technical and interpersonal skills directly in the workforce, these can be invaluable.”
DAN HUTCHINSON, VICE PRESIDENT, HR, UK & IRELAND AT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
accomplishments of this year’s graduating IB students. We are not only proud of their academic achievements, but their personal attributes as well. They leave us as strong learners, disciplined in their studies, and creative, analytical thinkers. Most importantly they are good and kind people.”
A LEVEL, GCSE/IGSCE AND SCOTTISH HIGHER RESULTS A-level students showed comparable resilience and determination to shine and overcome both the significant challenges of their pandemic-disrupted education and examiners bringing pass rates closer to 2019. Jonathan Shaw, head of King’s Ely Senior, summed up the mood of headteachers as the 8am embargo for 2023’s summer A level results lifted on 17 August: “Results day is always approached with a little trepidation, but for this year’s cohort there was the additional pressure of sitting public exams for the first time, due to the cancellation of their GCSE exams in 2021. We are therefore particularly delighted with today’s results.”
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Overall, a fifth of King’s Ely’s
A-Level results were A* grade, while almost half were A*-A and three-quarters grades A*-B. This meant that, with around 20% of students nationally missing their first-choice university offer as results were released and UCAS re-opened its systems that morning, almost every student at King’s Ely had secured a place at their first- choice institution. Highlighting the success of
schools like King’s Ely as well as those in the state sector, the A level pass rate at grade C and above in England fell fastest of all the home nations’ examination boards to 75.4% this year – slightly below 2019’s figure of 75.5%. This year, 3,820 students passed three A levels with an A* compared to 2,875 in 2019; below 2021’s peak of 12,945 where grades were protected due to the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. In Wales, the number of A and
A* grades accounted for 34% of all results, falling from 40.9% last year and 2021’s peak of 48.3%. The overall pass rate of 97.5% was slightly below 2019’s benchmark of
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