For those still to sit A-levels or Highers, where you live and which school you go to can profoundly influence results day. Time to tell Mum and Dad to move house.
It’s a contested field, the exams – how they are marked and how results are analysed shifting like quicksand from one year to the next. It takes months for the results to be properly analysed, though we already know Northern Ireland (with 85% A*-C results) beat England and Wales this year, as it did last, when south-east England came second (with 79.1%).
Scotland’s government is more guarded on league tables. The Sunday Herald placed Jordanhill, Glasgow, top of the state schools, with 81% achieving five or more Highers earlier this year, followed by St Ninian’s High (Giffnock) and Williamwood High (Clarkston); for independents, Albyn School, Aberdeenand, following jointly, George Heriot’s and Mary Erskine in Edinburgh.
For more read the full of article at The Guardian
