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FEMAIL has spoken to higher education and exam experts, including Clare Marchant, chief executive of UCAS, to arm concerned parents and guardians with everything they need to know.

Almost half of all A-level students received A* or A from their teachers - a new all-time high record - after exams were abandoned for the second year in a row due to Covid-19.

The Education Secretary said students 'deserve to be rewarded' after a year of disruption and said: 'We do expect students to get better grades this year'.

It was meant to create hundreds of thousands of jobs for young people who had been hit hardest by the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic.  But nine months since it was launched only 16,500 people have been hired through the Kickstart Scheme. The government’s target was to create 250,000 jobs through Kickstart and think-tank Resolution Foundation predicted that take-up of the scheme could dramatically exceed that number.  The Department for Work and Pensions is standing by its target and last week promised to ramp up its efforts. It pointed out that the scheme will be aided by the c...