A-levels

The Europa School in Culham will no longer receive an uplift for teaching a more intense programme, under government plans.

The £61m City Learning Quarter campus has been completed in time for its 4 November opening.

Elias, who got four A*s and an A in his exams, will study at Imperial College London this year.

Principal Kieran James says there is a "buzz" around the new centre.

Parents are sent a letter just as the new school year starts telling them A levels are being dropped.

Girls are still more likely to pass GCSEs, but why is the gender gap now the lowest on record?

Mahnoor Cheema, from Slough, said she had done less studying than the average student.

Students at a secondary school in London wrote letters to themselves at the height of Covid - and opened them again just before their GCSEs.