Number of top A-level grades rise - but it may be bad news for universities

Hundreds of thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their A-level exam results - with the number achieving A* grades up 0.4% from last year, to 9.3%, and the number of A*-A grades up 0.6% from last year, reaching 27.8%.

But years of underfunding have profoundly weakened the finances of the higher education sector, as struggling institutions cut jobs and close departments to stay afloat.

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[oneeleven]

We have come to a point where the intelligent ones don’t go to University…

[jantutor]

The elephant in the room is that going to university is touted as the pinnacle of learning. It isn't. University is a wonderful option for many but there are other routes to success, not least internships and apprenticeships. All too often however, rather like BTECS anything other that studying for a degree is treated like the poor relation with bad breath! It's also disingenuous to tout university as the be-all end-all, while not properly funding it to make it accessible to all, irrespective of background. Our young people give so much of themselves and deserve so much better!

[yeetmaster]

they should also show how equally depressing this day can be for people

[michaeltebandeke]

An apprenticeship is much better than a degree

[JP-qppe]

The solution is to close down universities and send the money to Ukraine

[Jesse-mlf]

Why does university take so much to run? It was £3000 a term like 10 years ago

[Jezzybel-fn]

I can remember when only the best academics went on to university and grants were available to fund them. Then the government chose to manipulate the unemployment figures by sending as many school leavers as possible. We lost so many trades people and thousands lost 3 years of their lives for an unusable degree.

[markopolo]

Anyone notice something in the thumbnail?

[muckraker]

The only thing that would be bad news for unis is if the government forces them to take more £10k British students and fewer £50k students on visas from Sudan that will never return and eventually bring over their 23 relatives.

[Kevin-egmf]

That's bcz there is no other life in UK anymore ..

[f-zgyw]

it makes no sense, ''most people are choosing maths and sciences'' yet the UK lags far behind the world?

[Matt]

Is this how uk is gonna be the next couple years?? “we need more time to get it right” ironically kicking the can down her own proverbial road. With the blame game easily loaded at all times. Dollars to donuts we hear her say the same thing 24 months from now.

[MrC.]

I wish I never went to uni. Waste of time and a lot of debt

[agggga]

One English looking girl in the photo and about 7 foreigners. Current day Britain

[trevski]

Make them sit real exams and come back with the results. Today's exam scores just measure the viscocity of swine manure .

[MattTerrell]

The biggest issue is that too many people go to university and take a degree that has limited, if any value in the real world marketplace. It results in needless student debt. We should be offering fewer courses and places at university not this endless drive to education fuelled by grade inflation that we've seen over the last 10+ years.

[colinaitken]

Columbia university president resigns, didn’t take labour long to hire her, shows their true colours 🤔🇬🇧

[deano_bites]

Very good news congrats to them people but the bad news no university spaces

[Truthbetold]

Uni is useful for maths, medicine, dentistry, maybe engineering (but degree apprenticeship can be good for that), computer science. Degree Apprenticeship is useful for finance, business, law, and some engineering courses. Other than these options everything else is useless.