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From gentrification to immigration, we explore reasons for growing attainment gap between capital and other regions
Ministers aim to export London’s academic success to England’s struggling schools
This year, A-level results in England reached a record high outside the pandemic era, However, the stark regional divide between London and the rest of the UK, particularly the north-east and East...
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Better-off areas set pace for raised national grades but results in north-east remain below pre-pandemic levels
Ministers have vowed to tackle England’s “entrenched” educational gaps that are leaving some regions and groups trailing far behind their peers and closing off options such as university for many of their school leavers.
A-level results published on Thursday showed an improving...
The percentage of boys’ grades that were A* or A was 28.4%, narrowly beating the 28.2% achieved by girls.
After a nerve-wracking wait, students react to their results and share what they plan to do next.
Student debt increasing, graduate salaries dropping, high-skilled jobs thin on the ground – higher education in the UK is a mess
A Chinese economist once asked me to explain British universities. “Why do you take your young,” he said, “at their most creative age, lock them in a monastery for three years and make them drunk?” Each August I recall this question when hundreds of thousands...
As gap between strongest and weakest performing areas in England grows, experts say more needs to be done about structural inequalities
One of the messages the education secretary was keen to get across during her media round on A-level results was the government’s commitment to tackling the “yawning inequalities” in educational attainment in England.
Bridget Phillipson, a Sunderland MP who...
Top A-level results have risen again. Here’s what you need to know.
High spirits at Birkenhead Sixth Form College, Wirral, as 92% of students win place at their first-choice university
Eva Baker, 18, was racked with nerves in the days running up to Thursday – when sixth form students throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their A-level results.
“The sleepless nights were worth it though,” said Eva. “I just got off the phone with my first...