A-levels show rise in top grades
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A-level results show more students passing and boys closing the achievement gap with girls.
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A report suggests maths A-levels have become easier and no longer stretch the brightest pupils.
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GCSE pupils at private schools are three times more likely to score A and A* grades, a report suggests.
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A number of leading public universities are drawing increasingly impressive and affluent students.
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Oxford rector suggests cash reward for A grades The head of an Oxford college has suggested that simple bribery might help boost the numbers of students taking maths at A-level.â¦
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Four fifths of UK university graduates were happy with their courses, a big annual survey suggests.
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Some of the new academies set up with help from business have better GCSE results than the schools they replaced.
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Some 26,000 more people applied for university courses in the UK this year than in 2007, a rise of 6.7%.
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This year's exam results in England showed 46.5% of students achieved five or more good GCSEs.
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The proportion of degrees awarded a first or 2:1 at Liverpool University jumped this year from 63% to 72%.
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A-level results show that boys are improving their exam performance more rapidly than girls.
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Appeals over school places rose in primary schools but fell in secondary schools last year.
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Students should take A-levels earlier and apply to university after getting the results, a report will propose.
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More than two-thirds of England's secondary schools have achieved specialist status.
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The amount of money England's secondary schools spend on ICT has risen by a third in a year.
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Jefferson City  Missouri students again scored higher than the national average on a major college entrance exam, according to data released by not-for-profit ACT.
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Output and order growth at UK manufacturers at their highest level in more than a decade, a report says.