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and, afterall, proud of what they ve achieved despite the disruption. best kind of priority for us was just to keep going and try and get into the uni and try and get to where you want to go, because if you can work through the pandemic and do all your online learning and get your a levels like you wanted, what s stopping you going off to uni and doing what you need to do? i think the standard has still definitely been there. it s definitely not we ve just walked in and they ve handed us the grades. we ve worked for these grades. regardless of what you ve got, - you should still be incredibly proud of what you ve done. i know my family are going to be l incredibly proud of what i ve done and all the work that i ve put in. here, a star grades were slightly down. the principal says they marked students over several months. they ve had to learn from home, and learning from behind a screen is vastly different to being in a college environment. i think the rigour of those grades has been ex
in scotland a record number of students have achieved a grades in highers and advanced highers. but overall the pass rate has dropped slightly since last year. though it s still significantly higher than before the pandemic. our scotland correspondent, lorna gordon reports. at the pace youth theatre group in paisley, they re rehearsing a show about heading to university. the pandemic meant no final exams for school students this year. but for those here, that didn t mean less work. in a normal year, i maybe would have sat five or six exams. that year, i sat 19. i really feel like the year has been so incredibly difficult, this year and last year, of course, as well. nothing was a fluke. results were based on teacher assessment a fairer system, say these students who, like many others across scotland, have been awarded as. normally, all the pressure sjust on one day, and some people might have an off day. the higher grades is kind of proof that this is a better way for students to get
and i have a certain set of values, etc. i m still where i am and the whole backdrop of the labour left has shifted further, further left. right across england, the political map has changed. labour s lost support in several towns in the midlands and north like leigh. but half an hour down the road in manchester, the party s still strong. so, how to keep support in cities and rebuild in towns? the mayor here was once the mp for leigh. he says giving communities more power would help voters reconnect, and labour must be clear on what it can offer. the country s crying out for somebody to step forward and say, you know what? we can t have this. we need a big drive to improve people s work, improve people s homes, improve people s communities. we ve become too timid sometimes and too nuanced in terms of putting forward our policy agenda. i think we kind of have to get bolder again in saying how labour is the right party to rebuild post pandemic britain.
in scotland, a record number of students have achieved a grades in highers and advanced highers. but overall, the pass rate has dropped slightly since last year, though it s still significantly higher than before the pandemic. 0ur scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. at this youth theatre group in paisley, they re rehearsing a show about heading to university. the pandemic meant no final exams for school students this year. but for those here, that didn t mean less work. in a normal year, i maybe would have sat five or six exams. that year, i sat i9. i really feel like the year has been so incredibly difficult, this year and last year as well. nothing was a fluke. results were based on teacher assessment a fairer system, say these students, who, like many others across scotland, have been awarded as. normally, all the pressure sjust on one day, and some people might have an off day. the higher grades is kind of proof that this is a better way for students to get the grades th