Education

Blundell’s School is thrilled with the excellent provisional GCSE results achieved by their Year 11 students. In a year group of 101, there was a 30% increase on last year in the number of A* grades, with an A* rate of 26%. More than half the year group gained the highest grades with an impressive A*/A score of 54% and nearly 40% of the year group gained 8 A*/A or more.

Twenty pupils gained 6A* or above with the following pupils gaining a tremendous 11A* or more: George Hill, Francis Huntingford, Hannah Le Gassick, Ennea Miller-Hunt, Caspar Montgomery, Harriet Nash, Rosalie Sanders...

A level students and staff at Exeter College have recorded another year of outstanding A level results with today's announcement of a 99.4% pass rate.

Over 900 students from across Exeter, Devon and Torbay received their A2 results today at the college – a 5% increase on the previous year - and almost a half have achieved the high grades A*, A and B grades, enabling them to progress to top universities in the future.

With these results Exeter will continue to rank amongst the country's top Sixth Form Colleges as one of the largest and most successful A level centres in the...

Blundell’s School is delighted to announce a strong set of provisional A level results. In a year group of 87 pupils, 41% of the results gained were A*/A, 69% achieved A*/B grades and 87% gained A* - C grades.

Almost a quarter of the year group achieved three grade As or better at A level, with 25 pupils getting at least one A* or higher and 29 (a third) achieving grades of AAB or higher. The pass rate was 96%.

The four pupils who had been offered places at Oxford and Cambridge all met their offers: Ed Nash will read Medicine at Gonville and Caius, Cambridge; Run Zhao will...

Over a third (34%) of current students and graduates have said they based their university choice on student engagement levels and student satisfaction, according to a new study.

Maintenance grants have now been slashed for all students and over half of the Universities in the England and Wales now charge undergraduates the maximum of £9,000 per year.

Despite this, UCAS figures reveal that over half a million students secured a place in higher education last year, there has also been a 2% increase in the total number of applicants in 2015, meaning student support is...