Education Secretary James Cleverly has suggested it was "always the plan" to bring A-level results down after two years of inflated teacher assessed grades during the pandemic.
Students across the UK will receive A-level results today. It is expected to be an extremely difficult year for pupils taking the exams this year to get into university, partly because the population of school leavers has grown, but also because universities over-recruited last year owing to sharp grade inflation.
Cleverly said students were given more "generous grades" in 2020 and 2021, having not had to sit formal exams, and warned this year’s cohort to expect lower grades than they might have hoped for.
