Number of A and A* grades fall
The proportion of A-levels awarded top grades has fallen for the second year amid a rise in students taking science and maths, official figures show.
The proportion of A-levels awarded top grades has fallen for the second year amid a rise in students taking science and maths, official figures show.
Nansi Ellis, head of education policy at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said after A-level results were revealed today:
We are worried about the Government's plans for new look A-levels.
We hope the Government rethinks its plans to return to a system of A-levels that only benefited an elite group of students who did well with an intensive regime culminating in one set of final course exams.
We think the current system, with AS-levels as the first half of an A-level, is better for the vast majority of students.
The number of top A-level grades fell for the second year in a row as students across the country found out their results today.
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