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A-levels

17 August 2024

  • Martha Gill

    A-levels are far from perfect, but in the exam hall every pupil – rich or poor – is equally afraid

    Martha Gill
    Despite the high stakes of these gruelling tests, they are still the best engines of social mobility
  • Rachel Cooke

    Notebook
    Are studies of great authors doomed as fewer students take English literature at university?

    Rachel Cooke
    Not only will literary criticism wither, but we risk losing the campus novel entirely
  • Amber talks to a large group of tourists near London Bridge station

    ‘It enriches your mind in every way’: the fight to keep the UK learning German

    With A-level entries for the language halving in a decade, a new initiative is hoping to save it from the academic scrapheap

16 August 2024

  • Three women on graduation day wearing gowns and mortarboards

    Higher-tariff universities admit 13% more UK school-leavers than 2023, figures show

  • Students in an exam hall.

    Time to bring back the popular AS-level

15 August 2024

  • A students show her results to an adult

    Pupils achieve best A-level results in a generation but regional gap widens

  • Bridget Phillipson with students receiving their A-level results

    The class of 2024 aced maths. Take an A-level challenge to see how you compare

  • Bridget Phillipson standing next to a group of pupils holding their results

    More maths, more regional disparity: England’s A-level results in five charts

  • Pupils from the NPTC Group of Colleges in Neath, South Wales, collecting their A-level results on 15 August 2024

    The Guardian view on A-level results day: great expectations have been met

  • Boost to A-level maths reflects student desire for digital literacy, experts say

  • These A-level students pulled off something remarkable. But close up the results tell a troubling story

    Nadeine Asbali

  • Pupils in England receive 2024 A-level results – in pictures

  • A-levels results: pupils in England achieve best results since 2010

  • ‘Unbelievably proud’: Luton pupils celebrate A-level and BTec results

  • Vast majority of A-level students secure first choice university places – as it happened

  • Top A-level grades are up – but worrying regional disparities remain

  • 'I did good': students react to A-level and BTec results in England – video

14 August 2024

  • Bletchley Park mansion in Buckinghamshire, England, home of the British code breakers during the second world war.

    Why humanities are vital, not just science

  • The number of pupils picking exclusively Stem subjects has doubled to 14% from 7% in 2014-15.

    A-level students choosing narrower range of subjects after Gove changes

12 August 2024

  • Bridget Phillipson leaving Downing Street after a cabinet meeting

    Education secretary warns of ‘baked-in’ inequality in English school system

    Bridget Phillipson says she is determined to reduce attainment gap as teenagers anticipate A-level results
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