Press Release

A-Levels

14th August 2008

Commenting on today’s results, Christine Blower, Acting General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Europe’s largest teaching union said;

"Today's results are a further ringing endorsement of both high quality teaching standards and student attainment. Young people's commitment to their personal development is borne out by an unprecedented pass rate.

"What rankles with the NUT are the sustained attempts by commentators to denigrate such concrete achievements, and argue that A-levels are now 'easier'. This is too often built on a lack of any real evidence, and seeks only to undermine the success story.”