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Results day reaction: Encouraging signs for industry

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As this year’s A-Level results are released, industry bodies welcome a jump in STEM A-levels but express concerns over gender gap and North South divide.

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This week (Thursday 15th August) saw hundreds of thousands of UK students receive their A-Levels with 27.8 of all grades marked at A* or A; top grades now back above pre-covid levels; and 82 per cent of applicants getting into their first-choice university.

Most encouragingly for an engineering and manufacturing sector crying out for an injection of fresh skills, this year’s results saw a big increase in crucial engineering gateway subjects. Maths exceeded 100,000 entries for the first time (whilst further maths saw a 19.9 per cent increase in entries to 18,082) and the number of students passing physics and computer science A-levels also saw a big jump, with these subjects up by 12 per cent and 11 per cent respectively.

 

“It is especially encouraging to see STEM subjects featuring prominently among the top 10 most popular A Level subjects this year

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