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Top marks: GCSE results see 1.2 per cent surge in A grades
Top marks: GCSE results see 1.2 per cent surge in A grades
Last Modified: 21 Aug 2008
By:
James Blake
The first children to be educated entirely under Labour got their GCSE results today.
There was a 1.2 per cent increase in A grades, with one in five exams awarded top marks.
But for hundreds of struggling secondary schools, the wait for results was particularly tense, as they need 30 per cent achieving five C grades to be removed from the Government's National Challenge list or face being converted into Academy Schools.
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