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  Results: Comprehensives

  A-level results for 2008 from comprehensive schools in England, updated by schools

  • Results: Colleges
  • Results: Grammar schools
  • Table: A-level results for all subjects 2008
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• Can we see an end to the annual A-level farce?

  Focus on one particular qualification, taken by a minority, suggests that other courses and exams are not worth taking, says Mike Baker

• A-level results: Students receive more top grades

  The number of A grades awarded at A-level rose again this year, with record numbers of pupils gaining university places

  • More twins this year than ever before
  • Students celebrate record A-level results
  • A-level students react
  • Martin Wainwright at a school in Leeds

Most recent

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  Vocational A-levels may hamper university chances, report warns

  Dec 1 2008:

  Pupils may harm their chances of getting into top universities by choosing 'soft' or 'professional' subjects, a report suggests

• The carer

  Nov 25 2008:

  Studying has been the biggest success story in Emma Graney's life

• Tories promise to link exams to world benchmark

  Nov 18 2008:

  The shadow schools minister, Michael Gove, pledges to reverse 'devaluation' of English exam grades

• The Deafness

  

  A teenage rock band with a difference, The Deafness are doing their A-levels at the Mary Hare school for deaf children

• Few sign up for flagship diplomas

  Nov 14 2008:

  Tories say just 12,000 have registered in schools and colleges, well below the government target

• Anyone for stretching?

  Nov 11 2008:

  Fran Abrams asks, is the new Cambridge Pre-U useful or merely an elitist qualification?

• Teens do not see science as route to good career

  Nov 7 2008:

  Misconception rife among pupils, as image of lab coat professor persists

• A-levels 'strangle scholarship', says Tomlinson

  Oct 8 2008:

  Former chief schools inspector Mike Tomlinson says A-levels are poor preparation for university

• Diplomas need credibility before full launch, say teachers

  Oct 7 2008:

  Teaching unions say employers, universities and parents must accept the new qualifications

• Parents and employers do not see diplomas as credible, say MPs

  Oct 7 2008:

  £590m plan to introduce diplomas to replace A-levels and GCSEs in England is at risk

• Vocational courses are failing students

  Oct 2 2008:

  Study shows applicants with traditional A-levels are more likely to be accepted by top universities, and to succeed once they get there

• Physics in rude health

  Oct 1 2008:

  Britain has a growing international reputation in physics, a new report shows

• Denham promises to fulfil university dream

  Sep 24 2008:

  Universities minister outlines new admissions scheme to get half of young people into higher education

• Universities to woo brightest state pupils by lowering entrance bar

  Sep 24 2008:

  Top institutions to launch talent spotting recruitment campaigns, universities secretary declares

• Spotlight on the auditorium

  Sep 23 2008:

  Actors find large numbers of students in a theatre audience can present a particular challenge

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