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Hundreds of thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are receiving grades this morning to help them progress on to university, work or training.
Results, reactions and pictures as region’s students learn their fate
Results, reactions and pictures as region’s students learn their fate
A-level results, awarded to pupils in the first cohort to return to standard grading after the pandemic, signal a “growing disparity” in academic achievement between pupils from poorer families and their more well off peers, experts say.
The attainment gap for the top grades between the north and south of England continues to be larger than it was before the pandemic, figures show.