NHS keeps its cool as temperatures and demand soar
Despite the record pressure, more patients were seen, treated or discharged within four hours than in June, with performance improving to 75.4%. The NHS also delivered its best performance against the 18-week target for…
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Students receiving T Levels reaches record high with maths A Levels on the rise
This is a time to celebrate the results and the full breadth of ambition as they next embark on their next steps – from brilliant academic institutions to degree apprenticeships, higher technical qualifications and…
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What end-of-life experts know about living well: love your wrinkles, celebrate birthdays and don’t obsess over work
How can our understanding of mortality shape our approach to life? Here, palliative care doctors and death doulas share what they know about the end – and how it informs the way they live. Prioritise people, not things…
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T Levels up 65% in their fifth year, but they’re still just 1.4% of today’s Level 3 results
Yet those results account for just 1.4% of the more than 1.36 million Level 3 results published today, based on JCQ’s published figures. How results day breaks down A Levels: 906,425, which is 66.6% of the overall…
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Stop the bites! How to survive another summer of mosquitoes, midges and horseflies
In the UK and beyond, they are enjoying the summer heat, and there are lots of humans outdoors, some wearing very little, like an all-you-can-eat walking buffet. Some of the humans are drinking beer, which apparently…
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Students set new records for A-level grades in bumper year
The proportion of students in England gaining the highest grade of A* in A-level subjects rose to 9.7%, up from 9.4% last year, setting a new record outside the pandemic era, when exams were scrapped. Northern Ireland…
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Results Day 2026: A level, VTQ and T Level results As Top Grades Slighty Increase
Today’s figures cover 906,425 A level entries, 134,910 AS entries, 300,005 VTQ results across 421 qualifications, and 19,665 students receiving T Level results, reflecting every major Level 3 route into work…
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Skills for Success: Celebrating Level 3 and T Level Results Day
With one of my own children getting her results today I know that many will be feeling excitement, but also nerves and apprehension about what comes next. That’s why it’s so important that as well as grades, we use today…
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Results Day is the Starting Point, not the Finish Line: How Parents and Carers can Support Young People this Summer
After months of revision, exams and anticipation, young people across Wales will soon receive their long-awaited grades and will be considering what comes next. But results day is only one chapter in a young person’s…
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Digital skills matter as much as A Level results
For today’s students, their A Level results mark an important milestone to help secure their next opportunity, but it is their adaptability, continued skill development and willingness to learn new things that will…
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